The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France, has received its fourth and last vacuum vessel sector. It will provide a high-vacuum environment for the ...
The Orion's first major flight test will be Artemis 1, which is currently slated for launch next year. This will be an uncrewed flight, but NASA still needs to make sure the craft is going to survive ...
ESA is recreating the intense sunlight and sustained heat encountered around Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System, inside the largest vacuum chamber in Europe. The Netherlands-based test ...
(CNN) – The “world’s largest” vacuum designed to suck planet-heating pollution has just opened in Iceland. “Mammoth” is a commercial direct air capture plant in Iceland which runs off clean geothermal ...
The Thermal Vacuum Facilities 6, aka VF-6, is one of the largest vacuum chambers in the world and is used to test thrusters used in outer space for companies around the world. CLEVELAND – It may be ...
A lost scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? No, although it will go to space at one point. It’s a 66 x 66 feet solar sail being tested by NASA at the largest vacuum chamber in the world, at ...