Dark Red Design
Product Development and Engineering Design

Spacecraft Docking Unit Test Station

Aerospace

Houston, we don’t want any problems

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The Spacecraft Docking Unit Test Station was conceived by the client to be capable of replicating zero gravity

The Spacecraft Docking Unit Test Station was conceived by the client to be capable of replicating zero gravity

Simulating the myriad of possible loading situations that will be experienced by a Spacecraft docking with another, whilst in orbit above the earth

Simulating the myriad of possible loading situations that will be experienced by a Spacecraft docking with another, whilst in orbit above the earth

Testing of such precise equipment required precise testing equipment

Testing of such precise equipment required precise testing equipment

What we did

What we did

• Mechanical Design
• Design for Manufacture

Benefits
• Client achieved tight time schedule
• Client increased service offering