Facilities

Space Propulsion
Small Satellites
Energy Systems

Working Group Space Propulsion and New Concepts

Electric Propulsion Laboratory

Electric Propulsion Laboratory

• Small Vacuum Chamber (30 cm Diameter, 50 cm Length)
  with 250 Liter Turbo-Pump to 10-6 mbar

• UHV Vacuum Chamber (20 cm Diameter, 30 cm Length)
  with 1000 Liter Turbo-Pump to 10-8 mbar

• Several high voltage and high current power supplies

Small Vacuum Chamber

UHV Vacuum Chamber

Low Temperature Laboratory

Low Temperature Laboratory

• Cryostat,

• SQUID Magnetometer,

• Superconductors,

• Lakeshore temperature monitors, etc                              

Low-Temperature-Lab

Mobile Test facility for Chemical Rocket Engines for Ethanol and LOX

Mobile Test facility for Chemical Rocket Engines for Ethanol and LOX

• Operating Pressure up to 20 bar,

• Volume per tank 14 Liter,

• Pressure and temperature control unit,

• Engine rack up to 3 kN

Rocket Test Facility

Working Group Small Satellite and Spin-Off Technologies

    

Electronic Integration for Space Components

Electronic Integration for Space Components

Integration of electrical components (EMC, Soldering, etc.)

Low Dust (Clean) Room for Space Experiments Integration and Sensor Development

Low Dust (Clean) Room for Space Experiments Integration and Sensor Development

Clean room, microscope, micro balance device, pebble mill

Advanced Screen Printer with Optical Positioning

Advanced Screen Printer with Optical Positioning

Clean Room

Sensor Laboratory

Sensor Laboratory

• Drying oven, Sintering furnaces max. 1700°C

• Impedance Spectroscopy IM6

• Flexible gas mixture & laminar flow facility (standard and combustible gases)

• Micro flow analysis channel

• Quadrupole mass spectrocope  (SEM QMS)

• Micro gas chromatographe

Sensorlab

Atomic Oxygen Exposure Facility

Atomic Oxygen Exposure Facility

Test Chamber for Simulation of Near Earth Environment:

• Space Exposure Tests
  (materials, electronic components, scientific instruments, solar cells under space environment)

• Atomic Oxygen under High Vacuum

• Pressure range: 5×10-9 - 1×103 mbar

• Atom Oxygen Production: Microwave induced and expansion into  UHV + Recombination

• Gas analysis: QMS SEM + Erosion of Kapton

• Sensor characterisation:

• FIPEX & Electronic
• Impedance Spectroscope IM6

Working Group Energy Systems for Space and Mobile Applications

Test Bed for characterisation of TEGs under terrestrial and space conditions

Test Bed for characterisation of TEGs under terrestrial and space conditions

• Test Area: 30mm x 30mm

• Temperature Range: -10 … +200°C
  (dependent on TEG and ΔT)

• Gauging of 4 Temperatures
  (especially hot and cold shoe temperature)

• Gauging of Generated Voltage by TEG
  (load resistance adjustable)

• Vacuum Chamber Testing Possible:
  Pressure range: 5×10-9 - 1×103 mbar

TEG Test Bed