Satellite Test Facility Opens
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•The National Satellite Test Facility in Oxfordshire is a one-stop shop for satellite testing
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National Satellite Test Facility in Oxfordshire offers a full satellite health check under one roof.
Satellites will spend weeks or even months inside the test chamber to ensure they can cope with the conditions of outer space.
Airbus is set to be the first customer to use the facility for its new Skynet 6A communications satellite in July .
RAL Space envisages two satellites a year being put through the gauntlet of challenges.
It is not just communications satellites that will be tested at the NSTF .
After Airbus , the French firm Thales Alenia Space will test its Fluorescence Explorer climate satellite.
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