World's largest vacuum

Posted by Lydia on the 1 March 2011

Have you ever wondered where the world's largest vacuum is and what it used for that could be? Now, don't worry, and wonder not more here is the answer to all of your persistent questions!

If you ever you are in the vicinity of NASA Glenn Research Center makes space building located at plum Brook station in Sandusky, Ohio find you would be this great miracle in shouting distance. Constructed type 5083 grade aluminium and one hundred metres in diameter and a hundred twenty two feet in height, with three hundred tons weight, which makes space plant support flooring aluminium vacuum chamber, which simulate the vacuum of space and test space vehicles built (SPF). It was also to the "non-nuclear space hardware in a near-Earth orbit environment" test. Although the building is designed to nuclear hardware and, was not carried out this type of testing. Some of the hardware tested on this website that are audible warning for the Mars Lander systems deployable solar sails, many types of hardware on the international space station and other high energy experiments rocket fairing separation tests used.

Learn more about this exciting test Chamber: NASA Glenn Research Center makes space facility

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