File:FCI inside MTG ESA396239.jpg
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English: A test model of the main imager for Europe’s forthcoming Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite inside Europe’s largest vacuum chamber for simulated space testing. Developed by Thales Alenia Space, this ‘structural and thermal model’ test version of the mammoth Flexible Combined Instrument will provide state of the art measurements of Earth’s atmosphere across 16 visible and infrared channels. Some 15 m high and 10 m in diameter, the Large Space Simulator – located at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands – is cavernous enough to accommodate an upended double decker bus. Once the top and side hatches are sealed, high-performance pumps create a vacuum a billion times less dense than standard sea-level atmosphere, and this is held for weeks at a time during test runs. A Sun simulator shines intense light on the test item at the same time that liquid nitrogen is pumped through the walls to recreate the cold of space in the shade. |
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| Source | http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/07/FCI_inside_MTG |
| Author | European Space Agency |
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| Title | FCI inside MTG |
| Mission | MTG |
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