SS/L upgrades USAF thermal-vac chamber for test flexibility

Space Systems/Loral has spent about $1.7 million to upgrade an old thermal vacuum chamber at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee, giving itself a backup facility for spacecraft testing as a way to avoid costly delivery delays. The company's money went into the old Mark...

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