COMPONENT TESTING

Flight hardware components and systems are tested at the NASTAR Center either by sending your component to us for analysis or by renting facility and operator time to perform the research yourself.

Dynamic environment research testing capabilities include:

• Acceleration (High-G Onset, Multi-Axes, Sustained G)
• Altitude
• Pressure
• Vibration
• Shock
• Thermal
• Night Conditions
• Combined Environments

In November of 2011 the NASTAR Center hosted David Clark Company Incorporated (DCCI) of Worcester MA for the testing of one of their products. A David Clark Company’s Contingency Hypobaric Astronaut Protective Suit (CHAPS) pressure suit was tested under G during a series of centrifuge runs in the NASTAR “Phoenix” STS-400 high performance human centrifuge.

Two Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) researchers and suborbital flight ticket holders, Drs. S. Alan Stern and Dan Durda visited the NASTAR Center to evaluate this suit under G.

Suit evaluation areas included: suit fit, mobility, range of motion, comfort, field-of view, communications, suit to vehicle interface, and ability to perform basic tasks under G.

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