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Disclaimer: This webpage is currently under construction and will be continually updated over the next few weeks.

Capabilites

• In-Space Assembly

Advanced Materials and Structural Systems

• Advanced Materials Synthesis & Processing
  • Composite& Polymers Laboratory
  • Advanced Metallic Fabrication
  • Light Alloy Laboratory

• Nondestructive Evaluation
  • Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory

• Durability, Damage Tolerance, and Reliability
  • Materials Reasearch Laboratory
  • Mechanical and Thermal Loading
  • Light Alloy Laboratory
  • Hazardous Testing Facility

• Structural Dynamics
  • Landing and Impact Research Facility (LANDIR)
  • Structural Dynamics Laboratory

• Structural Mechanics and Concepts
  • ISAAC
  • Large Structures Lab
  • Thermal Structures Lab

Aerosciences

Fundamental Aerodynamics Technologies

• • Basic Aerodynamic Research Tunnel (BART)
  • 15 Inch Low-Speed Tunnel
  • 20 x 28 Inch Shear Flow Facility
  • 2 x 3 Foot Boundary Layer Tunnel
  • 20 Inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel (SWT)
  • Supersonic Low-Disturbance Tunnel
  • Probe Calibration Tunnel

Applied Aerodynamic Technologies

• • 14 x 22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel
  • National Transonic Facility (NTF)
  • 0.3 Meter Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (0.3M TCT)
  • Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT)

Acoustics Technologies

• • Low-Speed Aeroacoustics Wind Tunnel (LSAWT)
  • Mobile Acoustics Capability
  • Quiet Flow Facility (QFF)
  • Thermal Acoustics Fatigue Apparatus (TAFA)
  • Structural Acoustics Loads and Transmission Facility (SALT)
  • Interior Effects Room (IER)
  • Liner Technologies Facility (LTF)
  • Exterior Effects Room (EER)

Aeroelasticity & Unsteady Dynamics

• • Transonic Dynamics Tunnel (TDT)
  • Rotorcraft Hover Test Facility

Aerothermodynamic Technologies

• Langley Aerothermodynamic Lab (LAL)
  • 20 Inch Mach 6 Air Tunnel
  • 31 Inch Mach 10 Air Tunnel
  • 15 Inch Mach 6 High Temp Air Tunnel

Hypersonic Air Breathing Propulsion Technologies

• The Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (Scramjet) Test Complex
  • Arc-Heated Scramjet Test Facility (AHSTF)
  • Combustion-Heated Scramjet Test Facility (CHSTF) Currently Inactive
  • Direct-Connect Supersonic Combustion Test Facility (DCSCTF)
  • Mach 4 Blow Down Facility (M4BDF) Currently Inactive
• 8 Foot High-Temperature Tunnel (8 FT HTT)
  • Hypersonic Pulse (HYPULSE) Facility Currently Inactive

Intelligent Flight Systems

Guidance/Control & Flight Dynamics

• • 12 Foot Low-Speed Tunnel (12FT LST)
  • 20 Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel (VST)
  • Aerospace Controls Research Lab (ACRL)

Reliable Digital Systems

• • Systems & Airframe Failure Emulation Testing and Integration (SAFETI) Laboratory

       Crew Systems & Operations

• • Air Traffic Operations Lab (ATOL)
  • Visual Imaging Simulator for Transport Aircraft Systems (VISTAS)
  • Operator Characterization & Performance Investigations Lab (OCAPI)

       Autonomy

• • Autonomy Lab for Intelligent Flight Systems (A-LIFT)

Measurement Systems

Electromagnetic & Sensors Research

• • Low Frequency Tapered Chamber
  • Pilot Chamber Range
  • Experimental Test Range
  • Mini Range
  • High Intensity Radiated (HIRF) Laboratory