Sentence examples for thermal vacuum from inspiring English sources
In the meantime, WildBlue's satellite, ViaSat-1, has started a monthlong test in a thermal vacuum meant to simulate space conditions.
The HSP was examined using thermal vacuum tests and thermal analysis.
Three inflatable booms are tested in a thermal vacuum chamber further.
Instrument performance and calibration measurements recently carried out under thermal vacuum conditions have confirmed predicted performance.
Sierra Nevada's plant, for example, features a thermal vacuum chamber that simulates the cold void of space and a pint-size mission control to track its commercial satellite launches.
For spacecraft, even greater emphasis is placed on functional verification including, in most cases, assurance of the performance of all critical operations in thermal vacuum chambers that simulate space.
Specifically, a thermal-vacuum cycle test campaign is run at the different mission operational conditions.
Before the completed telescope is sent into space, a million miles from Earth, it will be tested in a thermal-vacuum chamber (below) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Environmental tests include vibration testing, thermal cycles and thermal-vacuum cycles of every tray and tower as well as the verification of their electrical performance.
For each channel an RF-generator will be developed and subjected to a suite of environmental tests such as thermal-vacuum, vibration, radiation, shock and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC).
This paper seeks to investigate thermal behaviour of a thin-walled deployable composite boom (DCB) in a space environment using ground thermal-vacuum test and FEA methods.
