BepiColombo MPO MPB PFM undergoes bakeout
Submit on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 22:57
The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) Mechanical and Propulsion Bus (MPB) Proto-Flight Model (PFM) has been baked out in the Phenix thermal vacuum facility at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This process involved heating the MPB to 60 degrees C in a vacuum for 20 days to remove any contaminants that would outgas in space.
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