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welcome to NASA's spacecraft chamber of

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horrors here spacecraft and components

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suffer through a grueling battery of

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tests all in an effort to see if they

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are truly capable of performing their

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mission and surviving the rigors of

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spaceflight as this centrifuge whips

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them around they experience the kind of

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g-forces or gravitational forces that

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they can expect to see on launch

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now this interview is not for human use

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it can go up to 30 G's which is way more

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than a human being can stand they get

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shaken on any number of vibration tables

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to simulate the vibrations during launch

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there's no sound in space but the ride

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up can be noisy enough to break things

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inside this acoustics chamber the

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instruments are blasted with noise in

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order to make sure they'll be able to

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survive the rocket trip to space

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some like the new slick carrier come to

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this static load test facility some call

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it the rack inside this frame hydraulic

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actuators operated by a team of

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engineers push and pull the new

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composite payload carrier testing its

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ability to withstand the stresses of

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launch and re-entry based on the results

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from the thousand strain gauges placed

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on the carrier that passed in the

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electromagnetic interference test

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chamber radio waves are blasted at the

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instrument to see if they will disrupt

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its operations the instruments are also

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tested to see if they produce any radio

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waves that could interfere with other

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instruments or systems this is the space

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environment chamber

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inside this enormous tank spacecraft and

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instruments like the new Wide Field

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Camera 3 experienced the harshness of

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space the air is pumped out to simulate

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the vacuum of space and then the real

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testing begins this chamber can heat to

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a blazing 300 degrees Fahrenheit and

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then drop to minus 310 degrees

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Fahrenheit in here the spacecraft must

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endure the huge temperature extremes it

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will experience in orbit as it travels

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from full sunshine to the darkness of

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Earth's shadow a typical test can take

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many weeks

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if the spacecraft survives the torture

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in here it's pretty much ready for space

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if not better it breaks here than after

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launch here we have the ability to

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understand the problem correct it and

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test again all of this testing helps

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reduce the risk of failure on orbits and

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increase the spacecraft potential for

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scientific success