Test Services

Organisations providing test services to launch vehicle and spacecraft manufacturers and organisations providing equipment and software for launch vehicles and spacecraft

Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS)
mechatronic systems testing; vibration testing; shock testing; EMC testing; thermal vacuum testing

Alba Orbital Ltd
vibration and thermal bakeout testing for PocketQube satellites

B2Space Ltd
near space testing using stratospheric balloons

Ball Aerospace
EMC testing; thermal testing; inspection, testing and cleaning of optical components and systems; space qualified electronics manufacture

Callisto
cryogenic component testing

Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)
thermal testing; vacuum testing; vibration testing; hypergravity testing; microgravity testing

D-Orbit SpA
acceptance testing (thermal vacuum, vibration, shock) for small satellites

European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
operates an environmental test centre for spacecraft

Exolaunch GmbH
vibration testing for small satellites

Institute of Space Propulsion, DLR
development and operation of rocket engine test stands

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
EMI and EMC testing, antenna testing, thermal vacuum testing, acoustic testing, vibration testing

ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), India
high altitude testing of launch vehicle upper stage engines and spacecraft thrusters

Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, India
static testing of solid rocket motors

UR Rao Satellite Center (URSC), India
EMI and EMC testing, antenna testing, thermal vacuum testing, acoustic testing, vibration testing

ISILaunch
thermal cycling, thermal vacuum testing, vibration testing, shock testing

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
environmental and space simulation testing

Jakusz SpaceTech
material compatibility testing, particularly with rocket fuel and oxidisers; chemical analysis

Kakuda Space Center (KSPC)
rocket engine combustion test facility

Noshiro Testing Center (NTC)
rocket engine combustion test facility

Kelly Space & Technology
rocket engine combustion testing; thermal cycling; vibration testing; shock testing

Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
spacecraft test facility; rocket engine combustion test facility

Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA)
vibration, acoustic thermal vacuum, mass properties and EMC testing

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
rocket engine combustion test facility

Ames Research Center (ARC)
wind tunnel testing of launch vehicles, spacecraft and parachutes; heat shield testing

Glenn Research Center (GRC)
wind tunnel testing of launch vehicles; microgravity testing using a drop tower; lunar and planetary surface simulation;

Neil Armstrong Test Facility
vacuum and thermal vacuum testing; acoustic testing; vibration testing; EMC/EMI testing; simulated in space propulsion testing; large scale liquid hydrogen equipment and systems testing

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
spacecraft test facilities

White Sands Test Facility (WSTF)
rocket engine, thruster and propulsion systems testing for manned and unmanned spacecraft; oxygen system testing including: oxygen compatibility assessment and hazard evaluation, ignition susceptibility, flammability, and material/component compatibility; composite pressure vessel testing including: destructive testing, pressure testing and nondestructive evaluation

Stennis Space Center (SSC)
test facilities for launcher propulsion components, rocket engines and complete launcher stages

National Aerospace Laboratory (Nationaal Lucht-en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR))
thermal vacuum testing; vibration, accoustic noise, shock, acceleration and static load testing; EMC and EMI testing; antenna testing

Integration and Testing Laboratory (Laboratorio de Integración y Ensayos (LIE))
integration and test facilities for launchers and spacecraft

Northrop Grumman
antenna testing; chemistry services; EMI and EMC testing; radiation testing; environmental testing; metrology services

NPC Spacemind
mechanism and deployable system testing

Parabilis Space Technologies
rocket engine combustion test facility

QuadSAT
drone based antenna measurements and calibration

RAL Space
clean rooms; vibration testing; thermal vacuum testing

Sierra Space
rocket engine combustion test facility

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC)
rocket engine combustion testing using horizontal and vertical test stands

T-Minus Engineering
suborbital flights for microgravity testing

Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), Taiwan
thermal vacuum testing; acoustic testing; vibration testing; mass properties testing; EMC and EMI testing; antenna testing



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