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NPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing
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NPP is lowered into the thermal vacuum chamber. Once inside the Iron Maiden (visible in the lower left) is fitted in place. Then air is pumped out of the chamber and temperature extremes are applied to replicate orbit conditions. Credit: Ball Aerospace The NPP satellite sits surrounded by 144 rock concert speakers. They're stacked in a circle 16 feet high in a testing room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineNPP Runs the Gauntlet of Environmental Testing. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001819.
