NASA GRC EMI Lab

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Note: NASA Glenn's EMI Laboratory is a government in-house test facility supporting NASA's own spaceflight hardware development and qualification. External access may be available to industry, government, and academia through NASA Glenn's facilities use program. The Electromagnetic Interference Laboratory at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio has verified every piece of flight hardware departing Glenn since its completion in 1995. The facility consists of three shielded rooms, two test chambers, and a control room, all constructed with 26-gauge galvanized steel laminated walls, floors, and ceilings meeting NSA electromagnetic wave attenuation requirements. All electrical power is supplied through filtered AC lines to maintain low ambient electromagnetic field conditions. The large shielded enclosure measures 32' × 24' × 16' with a 10' × 14' door, accommodating large flight hardware assemblies. The small test enclosure measures 12' × 16' × 8'. The large enclosure supports stirred and tuned mode reverberation chamber operation for Statistical Mode Averaged Reverberation testing for both immunity and shielding effectiveness evaluation. Recent upgrades have added anechoic chamber treatment for small payloads and high-frequency test equipment. EMC testing capabilities cover NASA Space Station Program specifications (SSP 30237/SSP 30238) including CE01, CE03, CE07, RE02, AC and DC magnetic field emissions, CS01, CS02, CS06, RS02, and RS03PL, and MIL-STD-461F/G including CE101, CE102, RE101, RE102, CS101, CS114, CS115, CS116, and RS103. Additional services include EMC hardware design support, specification comparisons, design development consultation, prefabrication analysis, shielding effectiveness testing, filtering and grounding evaluation, and on-site testing at customer locations for items too large for the facility. The facility manager is John E. Thomas (216-433-2658).

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