Facilities
• Primary bay access is through roll up doors.
• Spacecraft are received in the PPF, processed, fueled, checked out,
mated to the interface adapter, and encapsulated in the flight fairing.
• Class 100,000 clean room, which can be operated as a Class 10,000
clean room if desired.
• Clean room equipped with HVDS, CCTV, fire detectors, and breathing air.
• Hypergol fuel storage bunker located proximal to PPF to facilitate fuel
transfer to payload tanks.
• Includes two 40 by 60 foot by 66 foot high processing bays with an
equipment entry air lock bay.
• PPF has 15-ton bridge crane with 50 feet of hook height.
• Environmentally conditioned with controlled and monitored temperature,
humidity and cleanliness.
• Concrete wall and blast shutter protect the processing bay from the
control room.
• Pipe and conduit pass through's are provided at strategic locations for
gaseous helium and gaseous nitrogen feed and electrical connectivity for
remote control and monitoring.
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