Element U.S. Space & Defense

Element U.S. Space & Defense is the aerospace and defense testing division of Element Materials Technology, a London-headquartered global network of testing laboratories with over 9,000 employees across 270+ facilities. The U.S. Space & Defense division provides qualification, acceptance, and certification testing for spacecraft, satellites, launch vehicle components, and military aerospace hardware — drawing on over 60 years of aerospace testing heritage from predecessor laboratories acquired into the Element network including Analytical Testing Laboratory and National Inspection and Consultants.

Element's space testing services include thermal vacuum testing (from CubeSat scale to 3-meter class spacecraft chambers), vibration and shock testing per NASA-HDBK-7005 and MIL-STD-1540, acoustic testing in reverberant chambers for launch load environments, EMI/EMC testing per MIL-STD-461, component and material mechanical testing for structural certification, and failure analysis for in-orbit anomaly investigation.

The company has received NASA's Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Supplier Award, recognizing suppliers whose quality management and testing rigor directly contributes to human spaceflight safety — a distinction that qualifies Element for sensitive manned spaceflight hardware testing contracts. Element U.S. Space & Defense competes with NTS (National Technical Systems), Celestica, and SGS aerospace testing divisions in the commercial space testing market, and with government facilities at NASA Goddard, JSC, and AFRL for government program testing.

Element's global network gives it an advantage for international programs requiring testing at multiple geographic locations and for programs that need to coordinate materials testing, NDT inspection, and environmental qualification under a single supplier management relationship.