Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems
Portable OTK

Testing Meets Portability

Project Type: 
Mechanical Engineering
Year: 
2019

Description

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems is a leading producer of deployable space systems including deployable booms, solar arrays, and stable structures and antennas, which must be tested rigorously to ensure mission success. Portable OTK’s modular testing platform, combined with the use of air bearings, allows engineers to test the deployment of space deployable devices under conditions similar to those experienced in space. The portability of Portable OTK allows for the device to be placed in various temperature controlled locations that will enable testing that will more closely replicate space conditions. With the precision leveling of the Portable OTK platform and the negligible friction offered by air bearings, deployable devices can glide through their desired processes.

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