- Purpose: Specialized for low scale propulsion testing, approbation and calibration of the plasma diagnostic.
- Location: LiBoLa laboratory on the UniBw M main campus.
- Key dimensions:
- Total volume: 0.1 m3
- Diameter: 0.35 m
- Lenght: 1 m
Pumping system of the Richard has three stages as follow:
- Fore-Vacuum Stage:
- Pump: Pfeiffer DUO 20 (FP1)
- Pumping Speed: 20 m3/h
- Pressure range: 1x103 to 1x10-2 mbar
- High Vacuum Stage:
- Pump: Pfeiffer TMP 330 and TMP 510 (TMP1 and TMP2)
- Pumping speed: 830 l/s
- Pressure range: 1x101 to 5x10-6 mbar
- High Vacuum Stage:
- Pump: Leybold RG 210 (CRY1 and CRY2)
- Pumping speed: 23300 l/s
- Pressure range: 1x10-5 to 5x10-6 mbar