Alliant Techsystems recently demonstrated a critical capability of its liquid oxygen (LOX)/Methane rocket engine by igniting it in a vacuum chamber. The successful ignition test was designed to ...

The term “vacuum” means many different things depending whether you are working on space equipment, scientific instruments, or even internal combustion engines. In our sphere it is so often used as a ...

The Voronezh rocket engine building center (part of Energomash integrated rocket engine building structure of Roscosmos) has successfully completed a cycle of fire tests of the standard chamber of the ...

Aluminum - The Unsung Hero for Non-magnetic Vacuum Applications. A variety of industries — semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, precision metrology, and scientific research — require vacuum systems ...

Engineers still seem to prefer stainless steel vacuum chambers over aluminum ones. But aluminum provides benefits for vacuum chambers, especially for ultra-high (UHV) and extreme vacuum applications. ...

Novatec has introduced a line of compressed air, blow-back vacuum chambers and vacuum loaders for powders and dusty regrind. They are said to be especially effective for handling polyvinyl chloride ...