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For Airplanes, It’s One Test After Another
May 5, 2015Aerospace engineers and everyday passengers alike have confidence when getting on an airliner that it’s safe to fly. But few people actually appreciate all the testing that goes into ensuring their airplane can withstand many different conditions and events that...
Understanding Testing in a Reverberation Chamber
February 3, 2015A reverberation chamber (mode tuned/mode stirred chamber) is a shielded enclosure or resonant cavity for RF testing which is statistically isotropic, random polarity, having RF uniformity within specified limits. Typically it has a paddle (or tuner) which stirs up the...
Extreme Cold Testing
January 8, 2015Environmental testing has been a major component of NTS services since our founding in 1961. Military and commercial standards such as MIL-STD-810 and RTCA/DO-160 include sections for thermal shock, icing, freezing rain, and hail impact. Thermal shock testing lies...
Testing Spotlight: Fungus Testing Update
December 11, 2014Fungus testing for MIL-STD-810 Applications
NTS Completes Successful Rapid Decompression Testing for FltPlan Android Tablets
July 29, 2014For many professional pilots, paper charts can be extremely cumbersome when dealing with thousands of different airports and multiple pages for each. It can also take several hours for pilots to revise their paper charts each 28 day cycle. As a solution...
How fast is too fast? Accelerated Life Testing
April 28, 2014When planning a test program, one of the most important variables is determining how long the testing will take. There is a great deal of pressure to compress timelines in order to deliver to market, and liability for field failures...
The Motor City goes Electric
April 28, 2014NTS Detroit is the newest place for complete motor testing. With high-power battery simulators, environmental chambers already integrated with motor wiring, and fluid conditioners for both oil and glycol applications, it is a turn-key solution for developing your hybrid or...
Silicon Valley adds IPX3 Spraying Water and IPX4 Splashing Water as part of IEC 60529 and ETSI 300 019-2-2
April 18, 2014In an important extension of its GR-63 CORE service offering, NTS Silicon Valley is now online with all GR-63 testing capabilities. As part of that roll-out, a large salt fog chamber is online to test to ASTM B117-11, GR-487-CORE, GR-950-CORE,...
New Reverberation Chamber at NTS Rockford Achieves Greater than DO-160 Category L Levels!
October 30, 2013We are pleased to announce our newly-added second reverberation chamber, coupled with state-of-the-art amplifiers, achieves greater than DO-160 Category L levels from 100 MHz to 18 GHz. Test frequencies as high as 40 GHz are now possible at NTS Rockford!...
NTS to Host 2012 NEBS Environmental and EMC Seminar
June 29, 2012NTS to Host 2012 NEBS Environmental and EMC Seminar