Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico has been up to big things lately. Just a few days ago, the facility reported replicating the energy found on the edges of black holes, upending ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from ...

Space structures are exposed to pyroshocks and other similar shocklike events during launch and whilst in operation, for example when triggering the separation mechanism with explosive bolts and ...

Engineers at the Sandia National Laboratories have figured how to test the large forces experienced by rocket avionics systems with a more environmentally friendly method. When a rocket goes into the ...

Sandia has developed an environmentally friendly approach to shock testing space components. Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly ...

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin have completed pyroshock testing of the first integrated Space-Based Infrared System (Sbirs) missile-warning satellite. During trials last month, program ...

Sandia National Laboratories' Mike Beabout and Patrick Barnes, left to right top, and Mark Stroman and Jamison Lee, left to right bottom, prepare a nitrogen-powered gas gun for the labs' Alternative ...

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Scientists have successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight. Sandia ...