Equipment

• Light-gas acceleration facility covering impact speeds from 2000 meters per second to 10,000 meters per second and disposing of projectiles with sizes ranging from micrometers to centimeters
• Simulation of functional environments during impact; high vacuum, electrical supply of components, pressure vessels, etc.
• Interfaces for external diagnostics

• High-speed photography and videography to optically visualize transient processes during experiment
• Time-resolved emission spectroscopy for analyzing impact plasmas
• Laser interferometry, laser Doppler velocimetry and acceleration sensors for recording accelerations and vibrations
• Laser light sheet technique to analyze ejection processes of materials under impact
• 3D scanner to record impact craters

• Software tool PIRAT to calculate the failure probability of intern and extern satellite components under hypervelocity impacts
• Hydrocodes and discrete-elements-methods tools to simulate impact phenomena
• Model to describe impact plasma

Technologies for the development of scientific payloads and nanosatellites

• Electronics laboratory  
• Additive-manufacturing facility 
• Integration room, clean room (gray room)
• Test benches for vibration tests, shock-UHF (ultrahigh frequency) ground station