The Space Environment Simulation Lab is a big vacuum chamber. Like, “able to swallow a Space Shuttle” big. Impressive, sure, but NASA’s Space Power Facility is an even bigger one. Like “can ...

Alliant Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen (LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber. The successful ignition test was designed to ...

[Nick Poole] does a lot of custom work with vacuum tubes — so much so that he builds his own vacuum tubes of various shapes, sizes, and functions right on his own workbench. While the theory of vacuum ...

The term “vacuum” means many different things depending whether you are working on space equipment, scientific instruments, or even internal combustion engines. In our sphere it is so often used as a ...

Aircraft designers test their creations in a wind tunnel and now spacecraft designers can do the same in a “space tunnel”. Researchers at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Göttingen have built a 12 ...

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Engineers still seem to prefer stainless steel vacuum chambers over aluminum ones. But aluminum provides benefits for vacuum chambers, especially for ultra-high (UHV) and extreme vacuum applications. ...