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Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel

Advanced Propulsion and Power Laboratory (APPL)

Facilities:

Hypersonic Tunnel

Vortical Flow and Diagnostics Laboratory

Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics (CMAR)

 

Kentland Experimental Aerial Systems Laboratory (KEAS)

Facilities:

2-Bay UAS Hangar

2100 sf paved UAS Runway
 

Space@VT

GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Laboratory
(Whittemore Hall)
Facilities: Space Constellation Navigation and Timing Simulators

Spacecraft Design Laboratory
(Whittemore 619)
Facilities: Satellite Assembly Clean Room

Space Systems Simulation Laboratory
(Whittemore 619)
Facilities: Attitude Determination and Control System Simulators

Experimental Plasma and Propulsion Laboratory
(Whittemore 290, RB2 Room 200)
Facilities: Propulsion & Plasma Vacuum Chamber

 


 

Corporate Research Center Laboratories

Fluid Dynamics

Experimental Aeroacoustics Laboratory
(VTSS 158)
Facilities: Anechoic Wall-Jet Wind Tunnel

Vortical Flow and Diagnostics Laboratory
(CRC Research Building 2, Room 101)
Facilities: Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

Fluids Lab
(2901 Prosperity)

Hydro-Elasticity Laboratory
(5 Norris Hall)
Facilities: Wedge Drop Facility (Water Tank)

Cavitation Laboratory
(VTSS 150)

Towing Basin
(5 Norris Hall)
Facilities: Drag-Reduction Test Facility, Water Tunnel
 

Structures and Materials

Aerospace Structures and Materials Laboratory
(Surge Building, Room 118E)

Materials for High-Temperature and Corrosive Environment Laboratory 
(CRC RB2, Room 100)

Dynamics, Control, and Estimation

Autonomous Aerospace Systems (A2Sys) Lab
(VTSS, Room 237)

Nonlinear Systems Laboratory
(1991 Kraft Drive Room 2008-C)

Assured Vehicle Autonomy Laboratory
(VTSS 133)

Dynamics Lab
(Norris 310)

Computational

VT Advanced Research Computing

Graduate Computational Laboratory

Propulsion

Propulsion & Energetics Lab
(CRC Research Building 2, Room 100)
 

Prototyping, Fabrication, and Additive Manufacturing

Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Machine Shop

AOE 3D Print Lab

Teaching Laboratories

AOE Studio for Design Innovation

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) / Aerospace and Ocean Engineering (AOE) Teaching and Research Laboratory
(Goodwin Hall 140)
Facilities: Open-Circuit Wind Tunnel, Smoke Tunnel, High Speed PIV System

AOE Electronics Educational Center and Laboratory
(Surge Building, Room 118A)

Drone Park

Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics
(Torgersen Hall 3015)

 

Design Team Maker Space

Ware Advanced Engineering Laboratory

Aerospace Engineering Design Laboratory

Model Building Center (VTSS, Room 235)