It is essential for medical equipment sterilization operations to prevent infections in the hospital. The low temperature plasma sterilization method using oxygenated water has the advantage of high efficiency and short time in sterilizing processes. However, a chamber which can hold constant vacuum condition without deformation is essential in the sterilizing system to apply plasma sterilization technique. In this study, therefore, the vacuum chamber is developed for 70 liter plasma sterilization device. The vacuum chamber is designed by checking the thickness, edge fillet value and rib of chamber through each simulation. And the performance of the chamber is investigated by vibrational modes and heat stress simulation. The prototype vacuum chamber is tested by experiments to verify the safety and efficiency for 0.1 Torr vacuum, and the result shows the expected vacuum level and displacement.

TRiplet Ionospheric Observatory-CubeSat for Ion, Neutron, Electron & MAgnetic fields (TRIO-CINEMA) is a CubeSat with 3.14 kg in weight and 3-U (10 × 10 × 30 cm) in size, jointly developed by Kyung Hee University and UC Berkeley to measure magnetic fields of near Earth space and detect plasma particles. When a satellite is launched into orbit, it encounters ultrahighvacuum and extreme temperature. To verify the operation and survivability of the satellite in such an extreme space environment, experimental tests are conducted on the ground using thermal vacuum chamber. This paper describes the temperature control device and monitoring system suitable for CubeSat test environment using the thermal vacuum chamber of the School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University. To build the chamber, we use a general purpose thermal analysis program and NX 6.0 TMG program. We carry out thermal vacuum tests on the two flight models developed by Kyung Hee University based on the thermal model of the TRIO-CINEMA satellite. It is expected from this experiment that proper operation of the satellite in the space environment will be achieved.