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Setting the Tone for Launch: Acoustics & Aerospace

When: Thursday, October 17th, 2024 | 6pm

Where: 364 Bush Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104

Cost: Free to SF Bay Area Regional ASA Chapter members
$15 for non-members / $5 for non-member students

Presenter: Eric Friedlander – CTO and Co-Founder of Acoustic Research Systems (www.acousticrs.com).

When qualifying space payloads for launch, reverberant field acoustic testing has been utilized since the Apollo-era. Advancements in loudspeaker technology and control methodologies has enabled the creation of a new approach called Direct Field Acoustic Testing (DFAN). The presentation will provide an overview of aerospace environmental testing, acoustic testing, and DFAN testing specifically. The development and the deployment of a novel, next-gen acoustic device (ARS’s Neutron™), purpose-built for the execution of large-scale, high-intensity DFAN tests will be covered in-depth.