![Infrared camera image of an airfoil equipped with an anti-icing system.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery5.jpg?w=1024)
![Temperature-Sensitive Paint on rotating fan blades.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery4.jpg?w=1024)
![Surface temperature data of rotating blades at takeoff](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery3.jpg?w=1024)
Test Technology: Temperature Measurement
Temperature measurements are necessary to develop the design characteristics that are needed for vehicle heating (surface or internal), and to maintain correct air flow conditions.
Focus Areas and Capabilities
Learn more about the specifications and capabilities of this facility.
![Temperature-Sensitive Paint on rotating fan blades.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery4.jpg?w=1024)
Quick Facts
The 9'x15' Low Speed Wind Tunnel provides customers with a facility capable of testing large scale aeropropulsion hardware.
![Temperature-Sensitive Paint of airfoil leading edge with projections (simulated ice using beads)](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery2.jpg?w=1024)
Techniques
These techniques address different types of instrumentation for carrying out pressure measurements.
![TSP used on flexible materials in a cyclic load test](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/temperature-gallery1.jpg?w=1024)
Capabilities
Different forms of information may come from known measurement techniques.
Test Technology: Temperature Measurement Gallery
AETC Test Technologies
Test Technology supports ATP by keeping NASA’s research test facilities and flight assets moving into the future.
As the world’s technologies continue to improve and research requirements become more demanding, Test Technology provides new and improved capabilities for measuring pressure, temperature, angle, strain, and air flow.
Read More About Test Technologies![Open-rotor Propulsion Rig, painted with Pressure-Sensitive Paint (PSP) and ready for testing.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/pressure_gallery_1.jpg?w=1024)
AETC Ground Facilities
AETC sets the strategic direction for NASA’s versatile and comprehensive portfolio of ground test aeronautics research capabilities.
Among these assets are subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic wind tunnels and propulsion test facilities at Ames Research Center, Glenn Research Center, and Langley Research Center.
Read More About AETC Ground Facilities![NASA Ames Research Center aerial from the NFAC 80-by-120-foot wind tunnel inlet vanes N221B with Power Substation North N225B, Office Trailers TR35A, TR35, and TR35C in forground looking west across center. The image was taken by Jonas Jonsson and Zachary Roberts, General Engineers with the Ames Aeronautics Projects Office, during a drone flight over the center.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/acd20-0075-003.jpg?w=1024)
AETC
Aerosciences Evaluation and Test Capabilities (AETC) Portfolio Office
The AETC Portfolio Office executes strategic efforts to preserve and enhance research and test capabilities for NASA’s world-class portfolio of National Wind Tunnel facilities.
Read More About AETC![On August 9, 2022 Glenn Research Center’s newest lobby renovation, the 10x10 Supersonic Wind Tunnel Facility, was celebrated with a ribbon cutting by Acting Center Director, Dr. James “Jimmy” Kenyon and AETC Portfolio Office Director, Dr. Ron Colantonio.](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/grc-2022-c-05727.jpg?w=1024)