NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Collections About News Help Login
Back to Results
Meeting today's requirements for large thermal vacuum test facilitiesThe Lockheed Thermal Vacuum Facility at Sunnyvale, California, completed in late 1986, one of the largest multi-program facilities constructed to date is described. The horizontal 12.2 m diameter by 24.4 m long chamber has removable heads at each end and houses a thermal shroud providing a test volume 10.4 m diameter by 24.4 m long. The chamber and thermal shroud are configured to permit the insertion of a 6.1 m wide by 24.4 m long vibration isolated optical bench. The pumpimg system incorporates an internal cryopumping array, turbomolecular pumps and cryopumps to handle multi-program needs and ranges of gas loads. The high vacuum system is capable of achieving clean, dry and empty pressures below 1.3 times 10 to the minus 6 power Pa (10 to the minus 8 power torr.)
Document ID
19880001458
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Corinth, R. L. (Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. PA., United States)
Rouse, J. A. (CVI, Inc. Columbus, Ohio., United States)
Date Acquired
September 5, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1986
Publication Information
Publication: NASA- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Fourteenth Space Simulation Conference: Testing for a Permanent Presence in Space
Subject Category
Ground Support Systems And Facilities (Space)
Accession Number
88N10840
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

Related Records

There are no records associated with this record.
No Preview Available