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Launch Equipment Test Facility

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Test Programs:

Space Shuttle

  • Full-scale umbilical and GSE testing with vehicle  motion and lift-off simulation.
  • LN2 and LH2 flow to subject test articles to cryogenic  temperatures and pressures that simulate launch  processing conditions
  • Component testing using LN2, LH2, GN2, GHe,  Water, or hydraulic fluid
  • Data acquisition up to 352 channels with recording  speeds to 60 million samples per second
  • Rapid prototype development and testing
  • PLC / Controls development
  • Structural testing/proof load testing of lifting  hardware, slings, etc., up to 600 tons
  • Instrumentation services (fixed and portable)
  • Pyrotechnics testing
  • Test Engineering

Space Shuttle

  • Payload Ground Handling Mechanism (PGHM) Qualification Testing
  • PGHM Automation Development and Testing
  • Circularity Measurement Tool (CMT) Development and Testing

Space Station

  • SSPF NH3 Servicer Qualification
  • MPLM Cooling Servicer System Prototype Development
  • MPLM Access Certification Equipment (MACE) Test Stand Fabrication and Checkout
  • Rack Insertion Device (RID) Fabrication and Testing
  • Cable Fabrication

LSP

  • Delta IV Swing Arm Testing
  • Delta IV Disconnect Testing
  • Delta IV Hydrogen Entrapment Testing
  • Atlas V Autocoupler Testing
  • Atlas V Autocoupler Testing
  • Titan H/W Proof Loading
  • ELV Payload Fairing Testing
  • Glory Spacecraft Payload Mockup  Fabrication

Space Launch Services

  • SLS Mobile Launcher 1 and 2 Umbilical Testing
  • Mobile Launcher Instrumentation Support During Move to Pad B
  • Mast Climber Testing
  • VAB Platform Testing
  • Telescoping Man-Lift Testing
  • LETF Upgrades and Facility Refurb
  • Weather System Fabrications
  • Crawler Shoe Testing
  • S-DAS Cable Fabrication
  • SLS Fluid Component Testing

Miscellaneous / Commercial

  • Blue Origin New Glenn Umbilical Testing
  • Lockheed Martin Nose Cone Testing
  • NESC Pyrotechnic Valve Testing
  • NESC Stud Hang-up Testing
  • Magnetically-Coupled Cryogenic Pump  Testing
  • APCI Linear Cryogenic Pump Testing
  • TUUA Fabrication and Testing
  • VSDS Testing
  • FSFSU Testing
  • Wire Rope Pull Testing
  • Stack 5 Lifting Hardware Fabrication
  • SpaceX Compression Bridge Proof-Load