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The Space Power Facility (SPF) is the world's largest environmental simulation chamber measuring 100 ft in diameter by 122 ft high. This facility was designed to test nuclear and nonnuclear space hardware in a simulated low-Earth-orbit environment. The Spacecraft Propulsion Facility (B–2) is a one-of-akind facility capable of testing full-scale upper-stage launch vehicles and rocket engines under simulated high-altitude conditions. The engine or vehicle can be exposed for indefinite periods to low ambient pressures, low background temperatures, and dynamic solar heating that simulates the environment hardware will encounter during orbital or interplanetary travel. The Cryogenic Propellant Tank Facility (K-Site) is a space environment test chamber essential in the development of advanced insulation systems and on-orbit fluid transfer techniques for flight weight cryogenic fuel tanks and insulation systems. The facility is 25 ft in diameter and has a 20-ft-diameter door allowing large-scale liquid hydrogen (LH2) experiments to be conducted safely. The Hypersonic Tunnel Facility (HTF) originally designed to test nuclear thermal rocket nozzles, is a hypersonic (Mach 5, 6, and 7) blowdown, nonvitiated freejet facility that tests large-scale hypersonic air-breathing propulsion systems. This facility contains a large "stand-alone" experimental infrastructure that can be readily reconfigured to test a variety of ground test applications including high-energy, high-risk testing.
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