Space power facility readiness for Space Station power system testing
Abstract
This document provides information which shows that the NASA Lewis Research Center's Space Power Facility (SPF) will be ready to execute the Space Station electric power system thermal vacuum chamber testing. The SPF is located at LeRC West (formerly the Plum Brook Station), Sandusky, Ohio. The SPF is the largest space environmental chamber in the world, having an inside horizontal diameter of 100 ft. and an inside height at the top of the hemisphere of 122 ft. The vacuum system can achieve a pressure lower than 1 x 10(exp -5) Torr. The cryoshroud, cooled by gaseous nitrogen, can reach a temperature of -250 F, and is 80 ft. long x 40 ft. wide x 22 ft. high. There is access to the chamber through two 50 ft. x 50 ft. doors. Each door opens into an assembly area about 150 ft. long x 70 ft. wide x 80 ft. high. Other available facilities are offices, shop area, data acquisition system with 930 pairs of hard lines, 7 megawatts of power to chamber, 245K gal. liquid nitrogen storage, cooling tower, natural gas, service air, and cranes up to 25 tons.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995STIN...9521384S
- Keywords:
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- Cryogenic Cooling;
- Cryogenic Storage;
- Power Conditioning;
- Reliability Analysis;
- Space Station Structures;
- Test Chambers;
- Test Facilities;
- Vacuum Chambers;
- Vacuum Systems;
- Cryogenic Equipment;
- Data Acquisition;
- Electronic Equipment Tests;
- Liquid Nitrogen;
- Space Station Power Supplies;
- Vacuum Tests;
- Ground Support Systems and Facilities (Space)