{"title":"Low cost TVAC Chamber for aerospace tests","authors":"J. M. Torralba, A. Aranda","doi":"10.1109/TAEE.2018.8476133","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"All the spacecraft subsystems must be exhaustively tested before launch in order to obtain space-worthy solutions. The aim of this paper is to perform several qualification tests for increasing the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solar cell protection diode. For accomplishing the tests, we undertake the design and manufacturing of a Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Chamber able to reach extremely low temperatures and to deal with High Vacuum (HV) conditions. This testing facility system will be able to recreate space conditions and to perform aerospace tests.","PeriodicalId":304068,"journal":{"name":"2018 XIII Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 XIII Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference (TAEE)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TAEE.2018.8476133","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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All the spacecraft subsystems must be exhaustively tested before launch in order to obtain space-worthy solutions. The aim of this paper is to perform several qualification tests for increasing the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solar cell protection diode. For accomplishing the tests, we undertake the design and manufacturing of a Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Chamber able to reach extremely low temperatures and to deal with High Vacuum (HV) conditions. This testing facility system will be able to recreate space conditions and to perform aerospace tests.