Large thermal vacuum chamber with a satellite inside and engineers in cleanroom suits alongside

08 / Test Site

Qualify the hardware before the launch manifest does

A shared environmental test site for district companies: thermal vacuum, vibration and shock, electronics and EMC, thermal cycling and functional validation, sequenced as one campaign on one site.

Thermal vacuum chambers

TVAC campaigns down to high vacuum with shrouds for thermal cycling, bake-out and outgassing screening, plus thermal balance runs against the flight thermal model.

Vacuum

Vibration and shock

Electrodynamic shaker tables for sine, random and sine-burst profiles in three axes, with resonance surveys, shock response spectrum testing and modal characterisation.

Mechanical

Electronics and EMC

Conducted and radiated emissions and susceptibility pre-compliance, ESD and grounding checks, harness validation and power-quality testing on flight and EGSE electronics.

Electronics

Thermal cycling and climatic

Temperature and humidity chambers for accelerated life, condensation and dwell profiles on avionics, sensors and biological payload enclosures.

Climatic

Functional and burn-in benches

Automated test benches for firmware validation, long-duration burn-in, telemetry replay, fault injection and hardware-in-the-loop operation of payload software.

Avionics

Payload and bio-integration

Cleanroom-adjacent integration for sealed bioreactors and sample cassettes: leak testing, containment verification, sterile handling and pre-launch conditioning.

Life Science

Satellite payload mounted on an electrodynamic vibration shaker table with accelerometer cabling and monitoring screens

Test Site / Mechanical

Every launch profile,reproduced on the ground

Sine, random and shock profiles are run in three axes with resonance surveys before and after each environment, so a change in structural signature is caught on the table rather than in orbit.

Campaign structure

From test plan to a defensible qualification report

Test plan

Requirements, qualification levels and pass criteria agreed against the target launch platform.

Fixtures and instrumentation

Test adapters, accelerometer and thermocouple layout, EGSE interfaces and safety review.

Campaign execution

Vibration, shock, TVAC and EMC runs with functional checks between each environment.

Test report

Traceable data, anomaly log and a qualification report usable in a flight-safety dossier.

Reference standards

Test methods aligned with recognised space practice

ECSS-E-ST-10-03CTesting of space segment hardware

ECSS-Q-ST-70-02CThermal vacuum outgassing screening

MIL-STD-810 / 461Environmental and EMC methods

NASA GEVSGeneral environmental verification levels

IEC 61000 seriesElectromagnetic compatibility

ISO 14644 cleanlinessIntegration and handling environments

Hardware produced at the district production site enters qualification here. Enquire about a campaign slot.