AHEAD provides space scientists and engineers working in research institutes and small-medium entreprises with the possibility to make use, free-of-cost, of the best European experimental test/calibration facilities for their technology advancement. These facilities include X-ray beaming, thermal-vacuum chambers, vibration devices and space simulators. Within AHEAD, they can be potentially exploited for a wide range of applications i.e. instrumentation for exploration of the cosmos, planetology, solar and plasma physics and particle physics.
XACT installation at INAF-OAPA Palermo
TVLAB, IPC, MEX installations at INAF-IAPS Roma
LARIX-A and LARIX-T installation at UNIFE Ferrara
LLBTF and VBC installations at ULSRC Leicester
SPATIAL at LAM/CNRS installation at Aix-Marseille University
FOCAL2 and Shaker 200 kN installations at CSL Liège Belgium
Space Test Laboratories (SERMS and the EMC) at Università di Perugia