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English: A young visitor explores the outsize halls of ESA’s Test Centre for satellites during the Agency’s 8 October Open Day at its technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

The largest facility of its kind in Europe, theTest Centreis a 3000 sq m cleanroom complex, filled with simulation facilities to assess that satellites can withstand the violence of launch and the vacuum and extremes of temperature found in Earth orbit. The centre has evaluated some of Europe’s largest space vehicles, including the eight-tonne Envisat environmental satellite, the 20-tonne ATV space truck to the International Space Station, and the multimodule BepiColombo mission to Mercury, set for launch next year. Visitors saw thePhenix thermal vacuum chamber, used for subjecting satellites to orbital conditions, theLarge European Acoustic Facility for blasting satellites with simulated launch noise, and theHertz radio frequency test chamber for assessing satellite antennas. A stand on Europe’s satellite navigation system noted that the centre recently concluded thetesting of 22 Galileo satellites.

More than 8400 visitors toured the site on Open Day. To see more pictures, clickhere. 
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