UK testing facilities
ESA-RAL Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
STFC / European Space Agency partnership
Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, England
Access: Yes
Testing capabilities
- Materials and structural testing
- Inspection and failure analysis
- Dimensional and physical metrology
Services
Advanced-material and manufacturing-process assessment for space hardware, including additive manufacturing, friction welding, joining, microscopy, X-ray CT, furnaces, tensile and micro-hardness testing; material-process recommendations and microsectioning.
Equipment
Metal additive-manufacturing equipment; optical/other microscopy, X-ray CT, furnaces, tensile and micro-hardness testing; the public operator page does not publish force, temperature or dimensional envelopes.
Standards
ESA Recommended Category A microsectioning facility stated on operator page; no general test-lab accreditation asserted.
Contact
Operator-wide contact: Email: ralspaceenquiries@stfc.ac.uk; Named contact route: RAL Space enquiries
Approximate location
Harwell ยท Town location