Thermal vacuum chamber and calibration set-up
Date: 05 April 2018
Satellite: CHEOPS
Depicts: Test chambers
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland
Copyright: ESA/Boffin Media
The cream-coloured, padded structure is a thermal-vacuum chamber at the University of Bern, Switzerland, that accommodated the CHEOPS science instrument during calibration testing. The instrument was cooled to various temperatures around -40 degrees Celsius to simulate the conditions of space and controlled to observe a calibration source through a window at the end of the thermal-vacuum chamber. The optical set-up of the calibration source is housed in the large, black cabinet on the right.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
