Looks like the world’s biggest vacuum chamber
Before sending equipment into space, you need to check how it will work in vacuum conditions. It is placed in a special vacuum chamber, and conduct surveillance.
The largest of these chambers, Space Power Facility works at the station plum brook in Ohio since 1969. Their equipment has not only NASA, but other companies, including Rasah.
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First, the cell was designed for testing nuclear hardware in vacuum conditions. Then the test was canceled, and the camera is preserved. Now there are testing the propulsion systems of spacecraft, safety systems, landing, Rovers and spacecraft to the ISS.
The SPF is a diameter of 30.5 meters, a height of 37.2 meters, and the volume is 22 cubic meters 653. This is a huge aluminum container, enclosed in a concrete dome. Plate of aluminum alloy Type 5083 fitted to each other so tightly that it does not leak air.
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The camera view is so impressive that in 2011 there is even filmed a scene from the Hollywood blockbuster “the Avengers”. However, after this incident, the leadership of NASA has found this initiative a threat to national security and prohibited its employees dealing with the press.
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