General Description Vacuum chamber dedicated to developing and calibrating electron sensors Smaller chamber and many feed-throughs allow a quicker pump down and greater flexibility Lab Capabilities 3 axis Helmholtz coil designed to simulate Jupiter's magnetic field (~8 G) Two electron guns with a dynamic range of 100 eV - 30 keV Pressure can go to ~10-10 Torr, chamber door opens to a class 10000 cleanroom 3 degree of freedom positioning system RGA, Webcams, pressure, temperature sensors, low energy gun, and coils are all computer controlled and monitored Quantar imager and Absolute Beam Monitor for beam characterization

General Description Used to characterize the high-energy response of: Solid State Detectors (SSDs) Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) Diamond Detectors Time-of-Flight subsystems Currently testing the Heavy Ion Sensor prototype to be flown on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft Lab Capabilities Linear acceleration voltages up to 450 kV Can achieve separation of 17 and 18 amu at the 5% level Sputtering ion ionization source for production of metallic ions (Fe, Mg, Si) Target chamber equipped with 4 degrees of freedom articulation device

General Description Primarily for the maintenance, development, and data analysis of flight instrument software In general supports all types of instrument development from start to finish Commissioning and operations planning and support Digital hardware specification, review, and testing Lab Capabilities 9 ESD workstations (190 Sq Ft of work space) Also capable of supporting Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) design, development, and testing ESD-certified class 10000 flow workbenches for flight instrument assembly Supports Integration and Test (I&T) and calibration operations

General Description Cleanroom for the integration, assembly, and storage of engineering and flight instruments At times doubles as a practical classroom for cleanroom activities and procedures Lab Capabilities Class 10000 cleanroom with anti-room for gowning All benches are ESD compatable Flow bench (not shown in picture) Vacuum bake-out chamber (room 280) to clean parts after fabrication, before assembly Contamination free cable pass-throughs Dedicated cleanroom tools 3 GN2 purge cabinets

General Description Advanced instrument development and calibration originally designed and built to support the Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA) instrument for the Magnetosphere Multiscale mission (MMS) Lab Capabilities Chamber opens to a class 10000 cleanroom Ion source can go from 100 eV to 40 keV using H+, Ar+, Ne+, He+, N+ (other gasses possible) High resolution ExB filter using an adjustable magnetic field Can pump down to ~10-7 Torr 3 axis motion control system

General Description Controlled access laboratory to support post launch calibration, characterization, and diagnostics of the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) and the Cassini Ion & Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) Includes the CAPS Chamber (left) and the Cassini INMS Calibration Chamber (right) Lab also includes benches available for ESD sensitive operations Lab Capabilities CAPS Chamber: Pumps down to 10-7 Torr in 10 minutes Remote monitoring of pressure, temperature, and CAPS instrument Cassini INMS Calibration Chamber: Bakeable to 250 C Gimbal motion control (+/- 10 degrees) Automated parameter control, monitoring, and recording

General Description Provides equipment and vacuum chambers needed for the burning in of MicroChannel Plates (MCPs) and Channel Electron Multipliers (CEMs) Lab Capabilities 2 Tubular vacuum chambers: 9.75" (diameter) x 17" (length) Can pumpdown to less than 10-8 Torr Multi-channel analyzer with charge amplifier to collect pulse height distributions over time Can use UV, electron, and ion flux to burn in