May 21, 2008 Aiolos to Design the NASA Glenn Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility
Aiolos is part of the design-build team selected for the Vibro-Acoustic Test Capability (VTC) project for the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. NASA awarded the design-build project to Benham Constructors, which has formed a team that includes Aiolos as one of its key technology partners for the project. The VTC project includes a Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility (RATF), a Mechanical Vibration Facility (MVF) and a High Speed Data Acquisition System (HSDAS) shared between the RATF and MVF. Aiolos is responsible for the acoustic design of the RATF, which will be the world’s largest high intensity reverberant acoustic facility when completed. This new test facility is required to support NASA’s Constellation program. The VTC facility will be used to test the extreme vibration and acoustic field conditions that the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will be exposed to during liftoff, lift abort and re-entry scenarios. This testing is essential to the success of the program and is considered to be a mission critical step in the path to the first launch initially scheduled for 2014. More details on the awarding of the contract can be found at: www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/news/pressrel/2007/07-29_Award_Vibration_Contractor.html