AEDC's newest world-class national space testing asset on its way to mission readiness
From left, Dawn Battles, ATK Space Threat Assessment Testbed (STAT) program manager; Keith Holt, Aerospace Testing Alliance’s STAT program manager; and Nikki Tracey, AEDC’s Air Force STAT program manager, listen as John Prebola, ATA’s STAT technical director, speaks about some features of the Space Threat Assessment Testbed Facility, located in AEDC’s Space and Missile Ground Test Complex building. The new facility will accommodate satellite component and entire micro-satellite tests. The micro-satellites are of low mass and size, usually below 100 kilograms. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)