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Test Facilities

P1 Test Facility
P2 Test Facility
P3 Test Facility
P3 Extension

Test Support

Rocket Engine Test Support.

Engineering and support for rocket engine and thruster testing at the Lampoldshausen test centre.

Activities

• Engineering for:

  • special test set-ups
  • design and layout of complete test facilities, e.g. P1.3, P1.6, P3.2
  • complete EMC systems, e.g. AMECOS system P1, P3
  • cryogenic HP and VHP systems
  • new measurement methods (thrust measurement)
  • design and layout for test facility components (tanks, valves, pipes etc.)
  
  

• Flight Propellants:

  • MMH purification and certification
  • MON production and purification with certification
  • filling and transport of propellants to launch pads - world wide
  
  

• Support:
  
  measurement support for production, Unified Propulsion System (UPS) integration and satellite propellant filling team

Test Facility Engineering

• Design of new bipropellant test facility (P1.3) for 10 N and 22 N thrusters. Status: accepted

• Design of new monopropellant test cell for 5 to 400 N thrusters. Status: run-in

• Replacement of the EMC systems for the P1.2 and P1.4 test cells

• Automatic test sequences for acceptance testing

• Modification of P 3.2 for the Vinci thrust chamber tests for:

  • Injector spray pattern investigation
  • LH2 CC flow checks
  • Ignition limit tests (LH2 temp. ~ 30 K) under vacuum conditions
  • Ignition and ramp up tests to steady state
  
  

• Modification of HP systems at PF 52 (ESA facility at Vernon / Snecma)

EMC Services

• Conduct Measurement Services:

  • Calibration, instrumentation of test specimens
  • Sequencing, measurement data acquisition services during tests
  • Leasing of instrumentation, measurement equipment to EADS internal partners
  • Test data management, storage, back-up, test evaluation, transfer to customers
  
  

• EMC Engineering Work

  • Amecos-Project (EADS Measurement and Control System)
  • EMC system layout design for special measurement, e.g. Vinci injector spray tests, investment projects for production
  • Thrust measurement devices in the thrust range 100 mN to 1500 kN

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