Overview of external test facilities

This page gives a non-complete overview of test facilities, that could be used during work on satellites at the TUD. They are located at the following institutions:

In the Netherlands:

• Dutch Space, Leiden
  • Thermal vacuum chamber
  • Ambient pressure thermal cycling test chamber
  • Vacuum ovens
  • Solar Array Flasher
  • Humidity
  • Modal survey
  • Drop testing
  • Optical testing
  • Infra-red camera testing
  • Mechanical testing (tensile testing)
• TNO, Delft
• NLR
• EMC
• Antenna range
• Thermal vacuum chamber
• Vibration and shock
• Thales, Eindhoven, Hengelo
• EMC/ESD testing
• Climate testing
• Shock & Vibration
• Courses (EMC for mechanical engineers)
• ESTEC, Noordwijk
  The facilities at ESTEV are operated by European Test Services.     
• Large Space Simulator (LSS)
• Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF)
• Multi-Shaker (MSH)
• Multi-Axis Hydraulic Vibration System (HYDRA)
• Large Electromagnetic Facility (MAXWELL)
• Mass properties measurments
• EMC / antenna test range
• Several smaller test facilities are available at ESTEC
• SRON, Utrecht, Groningen
• GeoDelft, Delft
  Centrifuge up to 400g (no cleanroom)
• Tech Campus Eindhoven

Europe:

• IABG, Ottobrunn, Germany 
  • Vibration testing
  • Acoustical testsing
  • Thermal Tests
  • Magnetic Tests
  • Mass Property Measurement
• Intespace, Toulouse, France
• Centre Spatial Liege, Belgium

Specific Test facilities:

• Proton testing
  • AMOLF, Amsterdam - Ion implantation
  • TU Eindhoven, physics - Cyclotron/microtron
  • RU Utrecht Sub-faculty physics - vd Graaff generator
  • IRI, Delft - vd Graaff generator
  • Philips NatLab, Eindhoven - Ion implantation
  • DERA/AEA-Harwell, England
  • ONERA-CERT, Toulouse - SEMIRAMIS facility
  • Dynamitron University Stuttgart
  • HMI-ISL Berlin - www.hmi.de/isl/nutz/nutz-I
  • Forschungzentrum, Julich - Cyclotron
  • KVANT, Moskou - several facilities
  • Weizmann Institute, Israel - Peletron cyclotron