Proper vacuum bakeout of flight hardware is increasingly important to mission success: heating a component under vacuum drives off adsorbed water and volatile species before they can outgas onto optics, detectors or cold surfaces in orbit. TS-Space Systems provides monitored vacuum bakeout in the UK, with the instrumentation to prove when a bakeout is complete.

Our chambers located in an ISO-8 class clean room and are fitted with a temperature-controlled quartz crystal monitor (TCQCM) and a cold plate, so outgassing is tracked in real time and bakeout completion is judged against ESA guidelines and ECSS-Q-ST-70-01. QCM frequency linearity can be processed live to give you up-to-the-moment data as to how your bakeout is progressing.

We have multiple residual gas analyser (RGA) units which can be added to identify the species evolving during the bake and our in-house FTIR facility allows for molecular contamination witness (MOC) plates to be run with your bakeout and analysed rapidly upon completion of your bakeout.

For materials and hardware that call for it, our chambers can be configured with shrouds and thermal plates for thermal bakeout up to +500 °C with PID-controlled heating and full temperature logging.

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