Integration Environments

Planetary protection and risk mitigation is important when working with space hardware. Therefore it is important to integrate and test space hardware in clean integration environments to avoid contamination and ensure operational safety of the instruments built. Several of these environments exist in the laboratories of IRF. The two biggest are the Integrationlab and Baselab.

The IRF Integrationlab contains three class 1 laminar airflow benches (FED STD209E) and is a particularly clean environment. The room as a whole corresponds to a class 100 clean environment (FED STD209E).

The IRF Baselab contains a custom built clean tent to which on one site a laminar airflow bench is connected. Within this clean tent several vacuum chambers and a table are located. The whole area corresponds to at least a class 100 clean environment (FED STD209E) with the laminar airflow bench being a class 1 clean environment (FED STD209E).

Equipment