Space Environments Complex
Located at NASA’s Armstrong Test Facility, an hour’s drive west of Glenn Research Center, the Space Environments Complex is home to four space-dedicated testing facilities.
Located at the Armstrong Test Facility, about an hour’s drive west of NASA Glenn Research Center, the Space Environments Complex (SEC) is home to four space-dedicated testing laboratories that assess stresses during liftoff, flight and extended missions from vibration and sound, electromagnetic radiation, and the general impacts of continued exposure to a hard vacuum.
- The SEC’s Space Simulation Vacuum Chamber is the world’s largest, and features all-aluminum construction, including a removable, reconfigurable cryo-shroud for background heating and cooling.
- The Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility is a spacecraft acoustic test chamber that can simulate the noise of a launch up to 163 decibels: as loud as the thrust of 20 jet engines.
- The Mechanical Vibration Facility is a dedicated spacecraft-shaker system, subjecting test articles to the rigorous conditions of launch.
- The Electromagnetic Interference/Compatibility (EMI/EMC) Test Facility is the world’s largest, capable of hosting a wide range of full-scale inter-system and intra-system electromagnetic tests.
Read more about the Space Environments Complex at Armstrong Test Facility.
To arrange testing in this facility, please contact John Zang or email hq-setmo@mail.nasa.gov.