Astrotech Operating Facilities
Astrotech-processed payloads launch from Florida's NASA Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and Long Beach, California. Astrotech’s spacecraft processing facilities are among the elite in the industry with more than 300,000 square feet of clean room space for hardware processing and encapsulation operations. Additionally, Astrotech provides 58,000 square feet of Class 100,000 clean room space, able to accommodate multiple spacecrafts simultaneously including the industry’s largest 5-meter class satellites.
Some of the critical features of Astrotech processing facilities include:
• Segregated hazardous and non-hazardous work areas
• Liquid propellant handling support systems
• Proven cleanliness capability below Class 10,000
• Dynamic spin-balance machine
• Fiber optic-based communications network
• Customer-dedicated control rooms and office space
• Conditioned and non-conditioned hardware storage
• Comfortable and friendly working environment
