The important heritage of activities at LESIA has allowed the MESPAL group to collect a wide range of test facilities. These are proposed for LESIA projects and by extension proposed in the frame of GIS-PARADISE of INSU (pooling & sharing of facilities). The different instruments are describred here below.
- SimEnOm
Thermal vacuum chamber for space environment simulation, 1m3, temperature range: 80K-370K (cooling with liquid nitrogen).
SimEnOm thermal vacuum chamber

- SimEnOm
- OBAMA
Thermal vacuum chamber for the calibration of IR detectors, temperature range : 60K-330K (cooling with cryogenerator).
OBAMA test facility

- OBAMA
- YACADIR€
Thermal vacuum chamber for the calibration of IR detectors, temperature range : 40K-330K (cooling with cryogenerator)
The test bench YACADIR€

- YACADIR€
- 10K chamber
Thermal vacuum chamber for the qualification of optical elements, temperature range: 10K-330K (cooling with a 2 stages cryogenerator).

- 10K chamber
- Bake-out chamber
Model CLIMATS V50 (50 liters)
Pressure < 10-6 mbar
Only heating function : outgassing in vacuum from ambient temperature to +160°C
Primary dry pump plus secondary turbo-molecular pump. Cryogenic trap at 14K (cryogenerator)
Microbalance TQCM (quartz) available.

- Bake-out chamber
- Climat chamber at ambient pressure in a acclimatized room equipped by a mobile hood with laminar flow ISO-7
Model CLIMATS EXCAL 2221-TA, 206 liters (with forced convection), programmable and remote control.
Temperature range: -65 to +180 °C

- Climat chamber
- Chamber with Pelletier heating/cooling for tests on electronics
- FT-IR spectrometer
Model AGILENT 660
Spectral range (cm-1) : Mid IR : 9,000–375
Wavenumber accuracy : 0.005 cm-1 at 2200 cm-1
Wavenumber precision : 0.003 cm-1
Spectral resolution (cm-1) : Better than 0.06
Interferometer type 38 mm dynamically aligned, 60°mechanical bearing Michelson

- FT-IR spectrometer
- Trinocular magnifier PERFEX ZOOM PRO 10.26
Magnification 8X to 200X
CAM. JENOPTIK ARKTUR 8.3MP
Screen UHD 27’’ (16:9) 4K
Integrated height comparator
Located in ISO-7 clean room

- Trinocular magnifier PERFEX ZOOM PRO 10.26
- Binocular magnifier coupled to a photo camera
Model binocular : NIKON Eclipse L150
Model photo camera : NIKON D70 + PC
Located in ISO-7 clean room

- Binocular magnifier coupled to a photo camera
- Thermal camera
Model : Optris PI 640
Range : -20 to +100 °C / 0 to +250 °C / 150 to 900 °C
Focal plane detector matrix (FPA) 640 x 480 pixels

- Thermal camera
- Portable micro-ohmmeter
Model AOIP OM16
Precision : 0,05%
Resolution : 0,1μΩ

- Portable micro-ohmmeter
- IR calibration equipment
integrating spheres, reference detectors, monochromators, stabilized power supplies…
Most of this equipment is located in clean rooms. LESIA has 10 clean rooms allocated over 250m², with cleanliness levels from ISO5 to ISO8.