HOUSTON — The scientific successor to the acclaimed Hubble Space Telescope has arrived in Houston for a pre-launch test using the historic, unparalleled facility that was built for the Apollo ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) What is a Thermal Vacuum chamber (TVC)?A thermal vacuum chamber is a device primarily used to simulate ambient space conditions. The most common applications for TVCs involve ...

Thermal vacuum chambers are ideal for testing components in a simulated space environment. Not only do they enable spacecraft components to be tested in a space-like vacuum, but they also allow ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has many of them, but Vacuum Chamber 5 (VF-5) ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Mars 2020 rover was moved into a vacuum chamber and tested under Mars-like environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...