Improved Leak Detection
January 1, 2016SpaceX Engineering, 2015-16
Liaison(s): Casey Schilling 08, Will Ferenc 13, Graham Gordon 15, Jason Nimersheim
Advisor(s): Mary Cardenas
Students(s): Cory Johnson (TL -S), Jeanette Liu (TL -F), Vicente Robles, Lucia Kaye (S) Benjamin Kunst (S), Jonathan Lum (S), Hannah Zosman (F)
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced spacecraft. The SpaceX clinic project is to improve the 1968 NASA TM X-53692 standard for characterizing leaks in aerospace hardware. More modern and economical detection methods will be tested on an experimental rig with helium and diverse gas mixtures to verify classifications of various leak geometries.