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Space Test Chamber STC3 delivery and installation
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Video Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtl9Zjqvzrk
STFC RAL Space has successfully installed the second 5m diameter by 6m long thermal vacuum chamber. The new test chamber increases RAL Space’s capacity to meet growing demand from the space industry to test how instruments and small spacecraft work in space-like conditions. • Delivered via two lorries, each transporting a half vessel weighing roughly 24 tonnes, the two chamber halves were unwrapped, cleaned, and then re-joined. It was then installed in its final position late in the day on Thursday and aligned with the 300 tonne seismic block which during calibration testing will help isolate the item under test from all other non-instrument vibrations e.g. chamber and building. • Find out more: https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages...
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