Platform update ·

Test facilities, drop-in replacements and a tools guide in the engineering console

Find a lab for vibration, thermal-vacuum, EMC or radiation testing by the size of your spacecraft, find replacements for a component from its own published values, and see everything the console can do from the new Tools button.

Four additions to the engineering console:

  • Test facilities. 71 labs are now searchable by the tests they offer — vibration, shock, thermal-vacuum, EMC, radiation, acoustic, magnetic and more — and, where the lab publishes it, by shaker force, thermal-vacuum chamber size and the heaviest test article it takes. Ask “vibration and thermal vacuum test lab in Europe” or “where to run thermal vacuum test for a 150 kg satellite”. Every figure links to the lab’s own page.
  • Replacements and second sources. “Alternatives to ST400” turns the product’s own published values into requirements (±20 %, same class and interface) and returns what can stand in for it.
  • Export status as a clear value. ITAR-free, not controlled, EAR99, EAR, ITAR, EU dual-use — taken only from the manufacturer’s own documents, with the source. Where a manufacturer has not published it, the console says so instead of guessing from the country.
  • Tools button. Next to “My mission”: everything the console can do, grouped, with a one-line explanation and an example that goes straight into the question line. Tools marked MCP can also be called from your own AI assistant.