Welcome to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's

Space Experiments Section Website

The NRL Space Experiments Section facility is directed toward improving our understanding of basic plasma processes at work in the Earth's Ionosphere and Magnetosphere. Steady-state geospace-like plasmas with conditions variable over wide ranges are created within the Space Physics Simulation Chamber (SPSC), a unique large-scale experimental device, allowing for the simulation of many relevant near-Earth space phenomena.

NRL is the Navy's corporate laboratory and conducts a broad-based multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technological development directed toward maritime applications of new and improved materials, techniques, and related technologies in ocean, atmoshperic, and space sciences.