Electromagnetic Compatibility Test Facility

Provide testing as per  MIL-STD-461 for spaceflight hardware and RTCA-DO-160 for aeronautics hardware.

Perform radiated emissions, radiated susceptibility, conducted emissions, and conducted susceptibility testing.

  EMC Test Chamber Facts:

- Semi-anechoic, fully welded, sheilded test chamber

- Meets FCC 3-meter chamber requirements (ANSI C63.4 & IEC 1000-4-3)

- 9 m x 6 m x 5.5 m test chamber and two sheilded control rooms

- 8 foot x 8 foot fully automatic, sliding, sheilded door

- 2 meter turntable for large EUTs

- Filtered power (DC, 60Hz, 400Hz) for EUT

- Test chamber sheilding performance of 120 dB up to 40 GHz

Spaceflight and Aeronautics Flight Hardware:

-         SABER Instrument

-          DC/DC Converters for FOSS Experiment

-           757 ARIES Flight Hardware

-           Quintronix Experiment, SpaceTec Ventures, Inc.

-           RANGER Telerobotic Experiment Mid-deck

-           Displays, University of Maryland

-            Meteor/SAGE-III Instrument

-            Mars Sample Return transmitter