Facilities

Space Environment Simulation

• Atomic Oxygen Directed Beam Facility
• Atomic Oxygen Hyperthermal Energy Chamber
• Atomic Oxygen Thermal Energy Chamber
• Vaccum and Near Ultraviolet Exposure Belljar
• Low Temperature Soak and Thermal Cycling Chamber with Electronics Performance Evaluation

Planetary Environments

• Lunar Dust Adhesion Bell Jar
• Martian Atmospheric Chemistry Simulator (MACS)

 Atomic Oxygen Cleaning

• Atmospheric Atomic Oxygen Beam Facility
• Large Area Atomic Oxygen Exposure Facility
• Heated Ozone Cleaning and Sterilization

Thin Film Coatings

• Dual-Beam Sputter Deposition Facility
• Electron Beam Evaporator Facility

Thermal and Optical Properties Characterization

• Cary 5000 UV-VIS-NIR Spectrophotometer
• Nicolet FT-IR Spectrophotometer
• SOC -400T Portable Infrared Reflectometer
• DB100 Room Temperature Emittance Measurement
• Devices and Services Portable Emissometer

Surface Texturing of Materials

• Arc Texturing Facility
• Electro-chemical Texturing
• Ion Beam Texturing (Dual Ion Beam System)
• Atomic Oxygen Texturing