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 ...

NASA's StarBurst instrument outside a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

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 ...

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 ...

TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GITAI USA Inc. (GITAI), the world's leading space robotics startup, is pleased to announce that GITAI's Inchworm-type Robot Arm has successfully passed ...

Stan Grisnik describes how NASA’s huge craft-testing facility can recreate the vacuum conditions of space. Inside the Space Power Facility The cost of failure of a space mission is millions or even ...

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 ...