Facility
The Space Experiments Section is a part of the Charged Particle Physics Branch of NRL's
Plasma Physics Division. We are committed to laboratory investigation of basic geospace plasma processes and to the
development of innovative sensors for space and/or laboratory use while integrating theory and space data to improve our
understanding of space plasmas. We approach these goals by investigating relevant near-Earth space plasma phenomena in a
large-volume laboratory plasma under appropriately scaled conditions and by performing laboratory investigations of dusty
plasma dynamics.
The Space Experiments Section facility is a (square footage) square foot laboratory with three experimental devices:
the Space Physics Simulation Chamber (SPSC), the DUsty PLasma EXperiment (DUPLEX), and the DUsty PLasma EXperiment Jr
(DUPLEX Jr). The SPSC is composed of two sections: the SPSC Main Chamber and the SPSC Source Chamber.
The following is a list of facility diagrams in PDF format for the Space Experiments Section's electrical and vacuum
systems:
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