• Thumbnail for Thermal vacuum chamber
    A thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) is a vacuum chamber in which the radiative thermal environment is controlled. Typically the thermal environment is achieved...
    2 KB (146 words) - 23:41, 13 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum chamber
    on. A type of vacuum chamber frequently used in the field of spacecraft engineering is a thermal vacuum chamber, which provides a thermal environment representing...
    7 KB (881 words) - 12:31, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Power Facility
    is the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber. It was originally commissioned for nuclear-electric power studies under vacuum conditions, but was later...
    13 KB (1,573 words) - 15:14, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum flask
    Vacuum flasks are used domestically to keep contents inside hot or cold for extended periods of time. They are also used for thermal cooking. Vacuum flasks...
    18 KB (2,121 words) - 19:54, 22 September 2024
  • interact via physical connections and for vacuum maintenance, monitoring, and manipulation from outside a vacuum's chamber. Several flange standards exist with...
    10 KB (1,043 words) - 09:04, 14 August 2024
  • Ultra-high vacuum (often spelled ultrahigh in American English, UHV) is the vacuum regime characterised by pressures lower than about 1×10−6 pascals (1...
    22 KB (3,060 words) - 23:30, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum evaporation
    room temperature. The vacuum evaporation treatment process consists of reducing the interior pressure of the evaporation chamber below atmospheric pressure...
    6 KB (641 words) - 14:24, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum
    A vacuum (pl.: vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter. The word is derived from the Latin adjective vacuus (neuter vacuum) meaning "vacant" or "void"...
    67 KB (7,594 words) - 14:11, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum pump
    A vacuum pump is a type of pump device that draws gas particles from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was...
    39 KB (4,578 words) - 07:50, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for GLONASS-K2
    developer announced that the first flight model had entered the thermal vacuum chamber. Spaceflight portal ISS Reshetnev (Reshetnev Information Satellite...
    13 KB (1,005 words) - 21:49, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reflow oven
    reflow can be augmented by the addition of a late-stage vacuum chamber.  Introducing a vacuum chamber to the reflow process allows voids and bubbles to escape...
    7 KB (878 words) - 15:05, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thermal spraying
    Thermal spraying techniques are coating processes in which melted (or heated) materials are sprayed onto a surface. The "feedstock" (coating precursor)...
    29 KB (3,824 words) - 03:22, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Materials for use in vacuum
    grow increasingly stringent with the desired degree of vacuum to be achieved in the vacuum chamber. The materials can produce gas by several mechanisms...
    20 KB (2,580 words) - 15:35, 23 September 2024
  • shuttle missions, and Building 32, which houses the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber and simulates all conditions of outer space (except zero gravity)...
    14 KB (1,668 words) - 02:25, 30 September 2024
  • chamber Vacuum distillation Vacuum evaporation Vacuum flange Vacuum furnace Vacuum gauge Vacuum grease Vacuum oven Vacuum packing Vacuum pump Vacuum tube...
    15 KB (2,201 words) - 08:24, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental chamber
    controlled setting. Climatic Chamber testing and Thermal Shock testing are part of chamber testing. Climatic Chamber testing is a broad category of ways to simulate...
    6 KB (677 words) - 05:22, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for CubeSat
    with special thermal concerns, often associated with certain deployment mechanisms and payloads, may be tested in a thermal vacuum chamber before launch...
    90 KB (9,914 words) - 19:18, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vance D. Brand
    by NASA in April 1966, Brand initially was a crew member in the thermal vacuum chamber testing of the prototype command module (alongside astronauts Joe...
    21 KB (2,164 words) - 15:41, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Z series space suits
    human-rated vacuum chamber and the Neutral Buoyancy Lab is expected in 2018-2019. This is leading up to a human-rated thermal/vacuum chamber test of the...
    10 KB (1,079 words) - 06:37, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Evaporation (deposition)
    a vacuum pump. It also includes an energy source that evaporates the material to be deposited. Many different energy sources exist: In the thermal method...
    12 KB (1,440 words) - 05:19, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of spaceflight non-fatal training accidents
    weeks. 1993 May 28 : frostbitten fingers in thermal vacuum chamber : While training in a thermal vacuum chamber for the STS-61 Hubble repair mission, astronaut...
    27 KB (3,451 words) - 15:59, 5 March 2024
  • ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chamber, then this experimental technique is often also referred to as thermal desorption spectroscopy or thermal desorption spectrometry...
    12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:38, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pressure measurement
    pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure and display pressure mechanically are called pressure gauges, vacuum gauges or compound gauges (vacuum & pressure)...
    74 KB (9,894 words) - 01:28, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceX Merlin
    optimized for vacuum operation and can be throttled between 60% and 100%. The Merlin 1C uses a regeneratively cooled nozzle and combustion chamber. The turbopump...
    52 KB (5,268 words) - 08:54, 26 September 2024
  • Yun-Fei (October 2003). "Theoretical simulation of vacuum cooling of spherical foods". Applied Thermal Engineering. 23 (12): 1489–1501. doi:10.1016/S1359-4311(03)00085-1...
    8 KB (831 words) - 19:35, 10 June 2024
  • components. In June 2017, MIS conducted a month-long successful thermal vacuum chamber test at NASA Ames Research Center's Engineering Evaluation Laboratory...
    5 KB (576 words) - 04:55, 17 March 2024
  • vapors or odors. Thermal shock can be a problem with some parts. Pollution control devices may be needed to protect the environment. Vacuum ovens use pyrolysis...
    8 KB (732 words) - 05:45, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vacuum deposition
    mass flow control into the processing chamber. Condensing particles can be generated in various ways: thermal evaporation sputtering cathodic arc vaporization...
    6 KB (775 words) - 18:14, 26 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thermal power station
    A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e...
    48 KB (6,493 words) - 13:00, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suitport
    combination with the Z-1 prototype spacesuit inside NASA's human-rated thermal vacuum chamber B at the Johnson Space Center. Early uncrewed tests of the suitport...
    13 KB (1,567 words) - 17:28, 8 June 2024