Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has established the Space Propulsion Assembly Center of Excellence (SPACE) to provide a unique capability for our customers. SPACE is an assembly manufacturing workcenter created to support experimental, developmental, engineering and manufacturing development, low rate initial production, pre-production and production tasks. This area has been designed and aligned to support lean manufacturing techniques throughout a program's life-cycle. SPACE supports programs from proposal activity through flight-testing and deployment. This area is unique because it contains a wide variety of assembly, inspection, and test equipment all within the clean room.

• Collocated team with over 20 years of ACP experience
• State-of-the-art equipment & manufacturing support systems

• Precision assembly, integration, & test
• Proprietary / classified program capabilities
• Orbital welding: 0.125" to 3.00" diameter
• EB weld system
• Fine clean processing center: Isopropyl alcohol bench with NVR capabilities to 25A
• De-ionized (DI) water flow bench
• Real time radioscopy (RTR) x-ray: 8 times faster than film
• Zeiss coordinate measuring machine (CMM)
• Center of gravity (COG) equipment
• Moment of inertia (MOI) equipment
• Pressure, leak, & calibration testing
• Workmanship vibration testing
• Pressure & leak test twin cells @ 1.3 million pounds of burst energy capability
• 20,000 psi GN2 (gaseous nitrogen), 7,500 psi GHe (gaseous helium)
• Xenon gas leak testing
• Electrical assembly
• Full automation
• Total of 12K square feet of clean room

• Orbital and GTA manual welding
• Tube bending
  • Mock up, fit-check, fabrication at customer's site
• Mechanical assembly
• Test operations
• Induction heat treating and brazing