SpaceSystems
Test. Validate. Launch with Confidence.
Complete Space Environment Simulation in One Facility
Space systems encounter some of the most demanding operating conditions imaginable. Element's integrated testing capabilities replicate the environmental, mechanical, thermal, and electromagnetic stresses your components and systems will experience throughout launch, deployment, and operational life.
As a trusted provider of space qualification testing and space simulation services, Element U.S. Space & Defense helps customers validate performance, reliability, and compliance before launch.
Our Testing Solutions Support
Space Simulation Capabilities
Space systems encounter some of the most demanding operating conditions imaginable. Element's integrated testing capabilities replicate the environmental, mechanical, thermal, and electromagnetic stresses your components and systems will experience throughout launch, deployment, and operational life.
As a trusted provider of space qualification testing and space simulation services, Element U.S. Space & Defense helps customers validate performance, reliability, and compliance before launch.
Environmental Testing
Validate performance and durability under the environmental conditions encountered during launch, storage, transportation, and space operations. Element U.S. Space & Defense's environmental testing capabilities help engineers understand how systems perform when exposed to mission-relevant conditions throughout the lifecycle of a spacecraft or satellite
- Temperature cycling
- Thermal shock
- Humidity testing
- Altitude simulation
- Combined environment testing
- Reliability and life-cycle testing
Dynamics Testing
Ensure critical systems can survive the mechanical loads experienced throughout launch and deployment.
Element U.S. Space & Defense's dynamics laboratories evaluate hardware performance under realistic mechanical stress conditions, helping engineers understand structural behavior and validate design margins as part of comprehensive space qualification testing programs.
- Shock testing
- Structural response testing
- Modal analysis
- Acoustic testing
- Mechanical load simulation
- Deployment mechanism validation
Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) Testing
Replicate the vacuum and thermal extremes of space before launch. Our thermal vacuum testing capabilities simulate orbital environments by exposing hardware to high vacuum conditions and extreme temperature cycling. This critical space simulation process validates functionality, material performance, thermal management systems, and mission readiness.
- Thermal vacuum cycling
- High-vacuum simulation
- Thermal balance testing
- Operational performance verification
- Spacecraft subsystem validation
- Qualification and acceptance programs
Vibration Testing
Simulate launch vehicle vibration environments with precision.
Vibration testing helps ensure spacecraft, electronics, payloads, and supporting hardware can survive launch-induced stresses without degradation or failure. These services are a critical component of both satellite testing and spacecraft qualification programs.
- Sine vibration testing
- Random vibration testing
- Resonance search and dwell
- Multi-axis vibration evaluation
- Qualification and acceptance testing
- Launch profile simulation
EMI/EMC Testing
Confirm electromagnetic compatibility and ensure mission-critical systems perform without interference.
As spacecraft become increasingly complex and electronically dense, electromagnetic compatibility is essential to system reliability, mission assurance, and successful satellite testing outcomes.
- Electromagnetic emissions testing
- Electromagnetic susceptibility testing
- Conducted emissions and immunity
- Radiated emissions and immunity
- Aerospace and defense compliance support
- System-level EMC validation
Strategic Space Systems Testing Facilities
Element U.S. Space & Defense supports satellite, spacecraft, payload, and launch vehicle programs through a network of specialized laboratories across the country, that provide comprehensive space qualification testing and space simulation services.
Fullerton
The Fullerton facility serves as a multidisciplinary aerospace and defense testing center supporting environmental, mechanical, dynamics, and EMI/EMC testing programs. The laboratory also serves as the company's EMI/EMC Center of Excellence, housing seven fully anechoic chambers, as well as a 40'x40' semi-anechoic chamber. It is particularly well-suited for satellite testing and electronic systems validation, helping customers verify electromagnetic compatibility, environmental durability, and mission readiness.
- Environmental testing
- EMI/EMC testing
- Mechanical and dynamics testing
- Thermal and vibration testing
Orlando
Located near one of the nation's premier aerospace and defense corridors, the Orlando facility supports complex qualification and environmental testing programs for space and defense systems. Customers leverage the site for mission-critical verification activities that accelerate development and reduce program risk.
- Environmental simulation
- Hydraulics testing
- Mechanical testing
- Aerospace and defense program support
- Reliability and performance validation
Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita serves as Element U.S. Space & Defense's flagship space simulation and large-scale testing facility. The site offers an advanced one-stop-shop for spacecraft environmental testing, dynamics, acoustics, cryogenics, hydraulics, and thermal-mechanical evaluations. Engineers at this facility have supported some of the world's most complex space programs, including NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the Mars rover, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
- Space simulation testing
- Environmental simulation
- Dynamics and acoustics testing
- Pyroshock simulation
- Cryogenic, pneumatic, and hydraulic testing
- Clean-room testing environments
- Large-scale vibration testing
- Qualification and acceptance testing
Camden
The Camden facility supports space and defense programs with environmental, dynamics, and energetics testing, helping customers verify that hardware performs under the conditions it will face in service.
- Environmental testing
- Dynamics testing
- Energetics testing
Why Element U.S. Space & Defense?
Integrated Testing Expertise
Access multiple testing disciplines through a single partner, reducing complexity and streamlining space qualification testing programs.
Over 60 Years of Experience
Our team of experts understand the stringent requirements of government, defense, commercial space, and satellite testing programs.
Accelerated Program Schedules
Efficient test planning and execution help keep development timelines on track.
Mission-Focused Confidence
We help customers make informed engineering decisions before hardware reaches the launch pad.
Supporting Every Stage of the Mission Lifecycle
Design & Development
Early validation through spacecraft environmental testing and simulation to identify risks and optimize performance
Qualification Testing
Demonstrate hardware readiness for operational environments through rigorous space qualification testing.
Failure Analysis & Investigation
Root-cause evaluation and corrective action support when performance issues arise.
Industries We Support
NASA Award-Winner
As a Space Flight Awareness Supplier Award winner, you can trust Element U.S. Space & Defense's commitment to technical excellence while helping you meet your most rigorous scheduling requirements.
Ready to Validate Your Next Mission?
Whether you're developing a CubeSat, conducting satellite testing, qualifying a spacecraft subsystem, or preparing a mission-critical payload for launch, Element U.S. Space & Defense provides the space simulation, spacecraft environmental testing, and space qualification testing expertise needed to achieve mission confidence.
