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your spacecraft and components suffer

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through a grueling battery of tests all

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in an effort to see if they are truly

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capable of performing their mission and

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as this centrifuge whips them around

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they experience the kind of g-forces or

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gravitational forces that they can

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now this centrifuge 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

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they get shaken on any number of

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vibration tables to simulate the

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there's no sound in space but the ride

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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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some like the new slick carrier come to

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this static load test facility

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some call it the rack

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inside this frame hydraulic actuators

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operated by a team of engineers push and

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pull the new composite payload carrier

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testing its ability to withstand the

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based on the results from the thousand

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strain gauges placed on the carrier it

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passed

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in the 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

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the instruments are also tested to see

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if they produce any radio waves that

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could interfere with other instruments

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this is the space 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 experience the harshness of

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space

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the air is pumped out to simulate the

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vacuum of space and then the real

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testing begins

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this chamber can heat to a blazing 300

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degrees fahrenheit and then drop to

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minus 310 degrees fahrenheit

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in here the spacecraft must endure the

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huge temperature extremes it will

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experience in orbit as it travels from

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full sunshine to the darkness of earth's

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shadow

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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

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all this testing helps reduce the risk

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of failure on orbit