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SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED

PROVISION OF Thermal Vacuum Chamber for Satellite and Spacecraft Testing (Space Simulator)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£300k
Awarded11 Mar 2019
Published17 Apr 2019
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£300ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This is a large award for Laboratory & Precision Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility requires environmental testing and verification and validation to ensure that spacecraft, satellites and associated components can be validated for performance prior to launch and/or terrestrial use.

The need for the simulation of conditions which are equivalent to space include near vacuum and a temperature gradient, for this purpose thus a Thermal Vacuum (TVAC hereafter) chamber or Space Simulator is required.

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The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility

The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility requires environmental testing and verification and validation to ensure that spacecraft, satellites and associated components can be validated for performance prior to launch and/or terrestrial use.

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Stage
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