Satellites go through a lot. As they hurtle around our planet at up to 17,000 miles an hour they must cope with the extreme vacuum of space and vast temperature swings, all while trying to precisely ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory are using test kit from Rydberg Vacuum Sciences to fast-track the development and qualification of a new generation of small-satellite ...

Technicians and engineers needed to take special precautions when preparing and transporting Webb’s spacecraft element for entry into Northrop Grumman’s environmental testing chambers. Northrop ...

Space Systems/Loral (SSL), a leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced progress on a new Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVC), which will increase the company’s production capacity and ...

The NASA Orion spacecraft that will fly the Artemis 1 lunar orbit mission is about halfway through two months of around the clock thermal vacuum testing at Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. NASA ...

The Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite, or JPSS-2, has cleared a critical testing milestone, bringing it a step closer to launch. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ...

Oxfordshire, UK-based RAL Space, which has a reputation for carrying out world-class science research and technology development in space-related missions, is building a giant vacuum test chamber for ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTS, the leader in testing, inspection, and certification solutions in North America, is pleased to announce that its laboratory in Los Angeles, California, has ...

PARIS — The first of Europe’s full-operational-capability Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites has successfully completed a crucial four weeks of thermal-vacuum testing, paving the ...

Engineers prepare the Mars 2020 spacecraft for a thermal vacuum (TVAC) test in the Space Simulator Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.The image was taken on May 9, ...

Ultra high vacuum (UHV) and extreme high vacuum (XHV) chambers provide the pristine cryogenic environment necessary for qubit ...