When the first astronauts walked on the moon as part of the Apollo Program, the concept of lunar habitats ceased being the ...

Thermal vacuum test systems: gearing up for preflight qualification of small satellites Another CAAO must-have is vibration isolation, so that Douglas and his team can evaluate precision adaptive ...

Through these integrated tests in the thermal vacuum chamber simulating the lunar South Pole, the GITAI Inchworm-type Robot Arm has now reached TRL6.

The thermal vacuum chamber in Gilbert is part of Northrop Grumman’s expansion of its satellite engineering and manufacturing operations in Arizona, which was completed in April 2022. The state ...

A new vacuum chamber for Cal Poly's College of Engineering was dedicated on campus Thursday, the university announced.

NASA scientists have extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a vacuum environment for the first time, conducting the test in similar conditions to those on the moon.

Over the course of 16 days, the spacecraft underwent tests like being put inside a thermal vacuum chamber that recreates the vacuum of space.