{"id":384432,"date":"2023-06-28T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=topic&p=384432"},"modified":"2023-09-27T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:34:44","slug":"vacuum-facility-3-vf-3","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/vacuum-facility-3-vf-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacuum Facility 3 (VF-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\" hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\"><div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\"><div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-light hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" 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(VF-3)<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-7 padding-right-0 desktop:padding-right-6 padding-bottom-5 desktop:padding-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg margin-0 padding-0\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button-primary link-external-true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"section-heading-md\">\n                                Learn More <span class=\"usa-sr-only\">about Vacuum Facility 3 (VF-3)<\/span>                            <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"><\/circle><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" 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class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">The VF-3 at Glenn Research Center’s Electric Propulsion Research Building<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>With a focus as a pulsed plasma-thruster testbed, the VF-3 is part of NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center\u2019s Electric Propulsion Research Building (EPRB) complex, whose capabilities center on a suite of vacuum chambers configured to meet the unique requirements related to electric propulsion, spacecraft power, and space environmental effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EPRB chambers range in size from bench-top bell jars to three meters in diameter, and are equipped with a variety of pumping systems: cryopumps, diffusion pumps, oil-free pumping trains, and high-throughput roots-blowers. 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