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STC-3 SPACE TEST CHAMBER 3 FOR RAL SPACE
2016- 2017 | RAL Space
STC-3 is the UK largest vacuum chamber for Space testing.
AVS was awarded for the development and delivery of an Ø5 x 6 meters full stainless steel thermal-vacuum chamber to the new National Space Test Facility in the R100 building of RAL Space. STC-3 in particular will perform the qualification and acceptance testing of top class satellite instruments such as the Sentinel-5 spectrometer.
STC-3 was delivered split in two halves from the Basque Country in Spain to the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire in July 2017. It was then assembled and fully tested in August 2017.
Click here to see the delivery and installation video.