Altitude Testing

    Six test stands at WSTF provide vacuum test capability:
    • Engine and engine systems up to 25,000 lbf (110 kN) thrust
    • Altitude greater than 100,000 ft (30,000 m) engine firing with steam ejectors up to 250,000 ft (76,000 m) using vacuum pumps without firing

    Altitude Testing Center

    • Propellants: liquid hydrogen, gaseous and liquid oxygen, hydrocarbon, hydrazine, Aerozine-50, monomethylhydrazine (MMH), nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4), gaseous and liquid methane
    • Solid motors
    • Helium pressurants
    • Nitrogen pressurants
    • Vertical or horizontal firing
    • Temperature-conditioned propellants and test article, 40 to 120 °F
      (4 to 49 °C)

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