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SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED

Provision of Vibration Testing System for the Disruptive Innovation for Space Centre (D.I.S.C.)

Laboratory EquipmentCPV 38000000
Value£170k
Deadline14 Mar 2019
Published17 Apr 2019
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Apr 2019ClosedCloses 14 Mar 2019
Contract value in context
£170ktotal contract value
median £70k
this tender£0£588k

This sits in the upper-middle of the Laboratory & Precision Equipment band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 9,869 valued Laboratory & Precision Equipment tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility requires environmental testing and verification and validation to ensure that spacecraft, satellites and associated components can be validated for performance prior to launch and/or terrestrial use.

Vibration testing is a key requirement to simulate launch conditions and essential for satellites to both identify problems and additionally determine operational conditions.

The Vibration Testing System (hereafter VTS) must be able to accommodate small spacecraft both with vertical shaker, and horizontal slip table capable of testing using sinusoidal, random and transient excitation.

The VTS will need to be air isolated and should not require an isolation slab for installation, should be air cooled and be capable of remote management - software should be specific to the system and either tuned or designed for accelerometers utilised.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility

The Disruptive Innovation Centre for Space facility requires environmental testing and verification and validation to ensure that spacecraft, satellites and associated components can be validated for performance prior to launch and/or terrestrial use.

02

The Vibration Testing System (hereafter VTS) must

The Vibration Testing System (hereafter VTS) must be able to accommodate small spacecraft both with vertical shaker, and horizontal slip table capable of testing using sinusoidal, random and transient excitation.

03

The VTS will need to be air

The VTS will need to be air isolated and should not require an isolation slab for installation, should be air cooled and be capable of remote management.

04

Software should be specific to the system

software should be specific to the system and either tuned or designed for accelerometers utilised.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
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