Advanced flow diagnostics

• • Subsonic wind tunnel: 0.4×0.4m2, Vmax=20m/s, turb.intensity ‹1%

• • Hydrodynamic Tunnel: 0.55×0.5m2, Vmax=2m/s, turb.intensity ‹1%

• • Aeroacoustic Anechoic chamber (in progress)

Chemical Propulsion Lab

• • Hybrid Rocket

• • Bench testing for compressors, turbines, and nozzles. Gas Turbine (131mm diameter, max thrust 230N)

• • Engine bench testing with small turbojet equipped with diagnostic instruments (thrust 20kg). The brnch room is acoustically isolated, fire-proof, and has a gas detection system for combustion experiments.

Navigation and Flight Mechanics Lab

• • EyasSat Rev C+ nano satellite trainer

• • Hexapod (Steward platform): 6DoF platform

• • Cockpit Instrumentation System Demonstrator

• • Open System Mission Computer – Flight simulator with integrated avionics

• • Aircraft system integration bench (courtesy of EADS)

• • 1 gyroscope

• • 6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• • 10 computers

• • B737 Simulator

Hangar

• • Total surface: 20 m x 19 m

• • Exposition area: A320 Horizontal stabilizer (700 kg, 12.5m 4.5 m). Courtesy of Airbus Operations.

• • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight testing area.

• • Flight testing setup for Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) Systems. It includes a remote mechanical control system compatible with 2 leading-edge inflatable and 1 rigid-frame power kites equipped with onboard instruments (inertial navigation unit, multi-hole pitot tube, load cells at each tether, etc) for data acquisition during the flight.

Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aeronautics Lab (ALMA lab)

• • Filament Deposition Modeling (FDM)

• • Raise 3D Pro2+

• • Raise 3D Pro2

• • 3 x Creality 3D Ender 3

• • Ultimaker 2 Extended+

• • Stereolithography Apparatus (SLA)

• • Formlabs Form3

• • Binder Jetting

• • Zcorp-Zprinter 450

Computer cluster

• • 1 Computation cluster (280 cores, 1TB of total RAM)

• • 2 Workstation Ladon Broadwell (22 cores, 256 GB of RAM)

• • 1 Supermicro Twin 1U (20 cores, 512 GB of RAM)

• • 8 Workstation (300 cores in total, 256GB of RAM each)

Space Propulsion and Plasmas Team

• • Vacuum chamber:1.5 m diameter and 3.5 m longitude. Equipped with the latest technology in terms of vacuum sensors and pumps.

• • A set of cryopanels and turbomolecular pumps provide more than 35000 l/s combined pumping velocity on Xe or Ar in an oil-free environment