For more information or to discuss potential contracting opportunities, contact:

Harry Wise
Aerospace Services Division

5030 Bradford Drive
Suite 109
Room 117
Huntsville, AL 35805
Tel: 256.722.8115
Fax: 256.722.8141
Send an e-mail

The tests offered by ICRC’s AS division are described below.

Space Environmental Effects

• Ionizing Radiation Combined Space Environmental Effects
• Ultraviolet Radiation
• Atomic Oxygen (AO)
• Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Impact
• Space Plasma Interaction
• Analytical Capabilities

Materials Combustion Research Facility

• Standard Testing per NASA-STD-6001, formerly NHB 8060.1 (Flammability, Odor, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures for Materials in Environments that Support Combustion)
  • Test 1 - Upward Flammability
  • Test 4a - Electrical Wire Insulation Flammability
  • Test 7 - Determination of Offgassed Products (Toxicity)
  • Test 10 - Simulated Panel or Major Subassembly Flammability
  • Tests 13a - Mechanical Impact in Ambient Pressure LOX
  • Test 13b - Mechanical Impact in Variable Pressure GOX and LOX
  • Test 14 - Pressurized Gaseous Oxygen Pneumatic Impact
  • Test 15 - Reactivity of Materials in Aerospace Fluids
  • Test 17 - Promoted Combustion and Heated Promoted Combustion (HPC)
  • Test 18 - Arc Tracking
• Thermal Vacuum Stability per ASTM E 595 and JSC SP-R-0022 (Standard Test Method for Total Mass Loss and Collected Volatile Condensable Materials from Outgassing in a Vacuum Environment)
• Oxygen Index per ASTM D2863-00 (Test Method for Measuring the Minimum Oxygen Concentration to Support Candle-like Combustion of Plastic)
• Auto-Ignition per ASTM G72-82 (Test Method for Autogenous Ignition Temperature of Liquids and Solids in a High-pressure Oxygen-Enriched Environment)

Environmental Gas Lab

• Clean Room Monitoring and Certification
• Cleaning and Verification
• Sampling and Analysis of Gasses and Cryogenic Liquids with Various Analytical Instruments

Environmental Test Facility

• 24 Environmental Test Chambers
• Vacuum Bakeouts
• Optical Cleanliness Vacuum Bakeouts
• Thermal Vacuum Testing
• Life Cycle Testing
• Launch Depressurization Simulation
• Re-entry Repressurization Simulation
• Thermal/Humidity Testing
• Thermal Altitude Testing

Structural Test Facility

• Strength Tests (Static Load, Proof Pressure Testing, Dynamic)
• Specialized Fixture Design and Manufacture (Fixture capability can accommodate very large end items)
• Modal Tests
• Mass Properties
• Instrumenting, Recording
• Tests Performed in Specialized Environments (Cryogenic)