College of Engineering News

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Students Push Cal Poly’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber Through Its Longest Cycle 

Late one night last summer, lights still burned in the Space Propulsion Facility at Cal Poly’s Advanced Technology Laboratories. Students kept watch over the thermal vacuum chamber, tracking its readouts and checking liquid nitrogen levels as the test pushed past midnight.  Keeping the chamber stable for 24 hours required overnight monitoring. The run was the longest continuous

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