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Facilities

Space Propulsion

All experimental facilities for research in space propulsion are located in and are operated in conjunction with the NASA Center for Space Propulsion Engineering located at the University Park Campus.

  • Unsteady propellant combustion facility with IBM PC based data acquisition system
  • 1 meter ID by 2 meter long vacuum facility for simulation of the space environment (low-density flow)
  • 3 kW variable power microwave generator operating at 2.45 GHz.
  • Additional equipment for the facilities include 0.5 meter computer-controlled spectrometer system and a CW Nd: Glass laser for heating and diagnostic studies.
  • Current Research
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0.5m Spectrometer (314K)

arcjet

Microwave arcjet unit, in operation (155K)

vacuum

2m Vaccuum facility (245K)

solid

Unsteady solid propellant combustion facility (217k)