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The Spacecraft Technology Center (STC) is a NASA Research Partnership Center with the mission to advance spacecraft systems technologies from basic research to practical application by collaborating with TAMU researchers, other universities, industrial partners, and government agencies. The STC provides Texas A&M with a substantial infrastructure for space hardware development, including design, analysis, prototype fabrication and testing, and facilities. In addition, while designing, fabricating, and testing these technologies, the STC develops and administers programs designed to enrich the education of engineering students for the benefit the nation's aerospace community. Located in College Station, Texas, the Spacecraft Technology Center is about 90 miles Northwest of Houston. The center is housed in a converted industrial facility, about two miles from the Texas A&M campus. The STC possesses substantial floor space and equipment to support the center's diverse design and development activities. The STC works projects at all maturity levels, from basic research to prototyping activities leading to functional systems that demonstrate concepts and capabilities of the emerging technology. A permanent staff of project-oriented engineers, permits the STC to function as an engineering organization and uniquely apply innovative concepts emerging from basic research to solve problems and support customer needs. This in-house expertise is applied to technology and test projects and to train graduate and undergraduate students learning the space engineering disciplines. The Spacecraft Technology Center is a division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), the Engineering Agency of the State of Texas and a component of the Texas A&M University System. TEES is the primary agent for engineering research within The Texas A&M University System Engineering Program, a partnership of state agencies and universities committed to technology-related education, engineering research, and outreach. TEES activities support programs of leading edge fundamental and applied research, with a major emphasis on critical interdisciplinary areas. TEES transfers the knowledge gained from research and development activities through programs in intellectual property, commercialization, technology licensing, and technical assistance. TEES is headquartered in College Station at Texas A&M University, but its scope includes all of Texas with divisions and affiliations at 14 Texas universities (and one in New Mexico) and 35 multidisciplinary research centers. |
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