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:: Who We Are :: Our Vision The Spacecraft Technology Center will be a national resource for engineering space systems technologies and enriching the education of future engineers.Our Mission The Spacecraft Technology Center advances spacecraft systems technologies from basic research to practical application through collaboration with TAMU researchers, other universities, industrial partners, and government agencies. While designing, fabricating, and testing these technologies, the STC enriches the education of engineering students to benefit the US aerospace community.STC: A NASA Research Partnership Center Created under a cooperative agreement with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the STC has low-cost access to internal and external platforms on the ISS and the Space Shuttle. We are chartered by NASA to support industry's development of commercial payloads for those platforms. We also support development of commercial payloads involving other space platforms.Affiliations and Partnerships Our Center is a division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), a state agency located on the Texas A&M University campus. TEES provides the STC with a dedicated and permanent technical staff, extensive R&D facilities, and direct access to renowned academic expertise from throughout the Texas A&M University System. The STC works jointly with a number of space-oriented companies, such as SPACEHAB, Inc. and Broadreach Electronics Company, to enhance our access to flight opportunities and payload fabrication know-how.Capabilities We have the expertise and facilities to advance technologies from concept feasibility to flight demonstration in the space environment. Our proven design and project management team has flown both internal ISS and external shuttle payloads. Our high-caliber engineering staff employs state-of-the-art analytic tools: Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks, MSC/Nastran, STK/PRO-VO, and Thermal Desktop. Our 15,000 SF of space hardware fabrication and test facilities includes a Class-10,000 clean room, thermal-vacuum chambers (24" bell jar and 7' x 20' chamber), 8K vibe table, small board-level shaker, and EMI and acoustic chambers.Personnel
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