The Space Environmental Durability Branch has the following facilities:

    Space Environment Simulation:

• Atomic Oxygen Beam Facility
• Vacuum Thermal Cycling Facility
• Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Facility
  

    Atomic Oxygen Cleaning:

• Atmospheric Atomic Oxygen Beam Facility
• Large Area Atomic Oxygen Exposure Facility

    Thin Film Coatings:

• Dual-Beam Sputter Deposition Facility
• Electron Beam Evaporator Facility

    Thermal Properties Characterization:

• Low-Temperature Calorimetric Vacuum Emissometer
• Low-Temperature Comparative Thermal Conductivity Facility

    Surface Texturing of Materials:

• Arc Texturing Facility

• Lunar Dust Adhesion Bell Jar
• Martian Atmospheric Chemistry Simulator (MACS)
  

• Paschen Breakdown Investigation Facility
• Ion Thruster Isolator/Insulator Test Facility
• Ion Thruster Contamination Test Facility

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