The Disruptive Innovation for Space Capability (DISC) houses a range of facilities to support the design, manufacture and testing of products for deployment into complex environments. DISC provides access to equipment and expertise to help you innovate and accelerate the development of new products and services.

With end-to-end design, modelling, testing and production equipment in a collaborative engineering environment, we can help you develop new solutions for large-scale market opportunities. DISC will enable teams to take an R&D project from proof of concept through to a full-sized prototype, manufactured at quality levels and scales sufficient to undertake end-customer validation.

With competitive rates available from as short as half a day to as long as a project requires, the facilities are open to industry and academia and provide equipment that is frequently out-of-reach to small or medium-sized companies.

At the end of 2019 we opened an expansion to DISC, a new 1150 sqm facility, which provides access to equipment and expertise to help UK companies accelerate the development of new products and services. It includes flexible laboratory and design areas, clean rooms, a vibration table, a thermal oven, and a wide range of other high-tech equipment. 

We currently have four 36 square metre ISO 7 Clean Rooms available for hire – all fully equipped with standard electrical supplies, electro-static discharge tables, and ESD flooring, compressed clean air lines, and wi-fi.

Equipment

Vibration Testing:

• IMV A22 Vibration Test System.
• IMV RT 600 Slip Table.
• VRC VR9500, 4 channel vibration controller.
• 22 kN Sine and 22 kN Random force.
• Sine acceleration 100g.
• Random acceleration 63g rms.
• 300 kg max load.

Environmental Chamber:

• Discovery My Climatic Chamber, DM1200 C ES.
• 1076 litre capacity.
• Internal dimensions 1000mm x 1130mm x 953mm (WxDxH).
• Temperature range -75°C to 180°C.
• Relative humidity range 10% to 98% (within temperature range 10°C to 95°C).

Please see below for the brochure showing all equipment currently available within DISC. If you want to know more about how DISC could help you, and find out how this facility can potentially support your innovation and growth, please email: disc@sa.catapult.org.uk.