Facilities
MASA prides itself on designing, manufacturing, and testing almost all of its components in-house. Browse MASA's fabrication and testing facilities below.
Assembly
MASA Workspace
The MASA Workspace, situated within the Wilson Student Team Project Center, serves as the primary hub for the team's design and assembly operations. This shared facility, located directly across from the FXB aerospace engineering building, houses numerous student project teams. Here, MASA conducts the majority of its component integration, including the assembly of plumbing and structural elements. For more specialized work, the team utilizes a dedicated space on the Wilson Center's mezzanine level, where avionics components are meticulously constructed and assembled.

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Manufacturing
Wilson Student Team Project Center
The 20,000-square-foot Wilson Student Team Project Center (WSTPC) is a $10-million production and assembly facility in the GFL building and is MASA's primary manufacturing space. It includes work areas, a machine shop, paint studio, and MASA's materials storage cage. The Wilson Center is open for students to use 24/7. Only basic training is required for students to gain access to the center.

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Manufacturing
WSTPC Machine Shop
The WSTPC Machine Shop, located in the Wilson Student Team Project Center, is where MASA does most of its manual and CNC machining. The facility includes manual and CNC mills and lathes as well as larger HAAS CNC mills.
Assembly
WSTPC Wetlab
Located inside the Wilson Student Team Project Center, the Wetlab is used by MASA as a cleanroom for preparing and assembling LOx-cleaned components as well as for preparing solid rocket motors.
Testing
MASA Rocket Propulsion Testing Facility

Located near Ridgecrest, California in the Mojave Desert, MASA utilizes the Reaction Research Society's Mojave Test Area to conduct static fire tests of our high powered liquid rocket engines. We are proud to utilize the expertise of and contribute to the history of rocket testing in the Mojave Test Area.


Safely Monitoring and Testing our Rocket Engine

At MASA, we have been working hard to manufacture and test our experimental liquid rocket engine, and have designed our ground support equipment to accommodate increasingly complicated hardware. Critical to keeping test personnel and sensitive hardware safe is the capability to remotely operate and monitor all the systems in our test cell.

To this end, we’re adopting a new live security camera system made possible by the expertise of CCTV Camera World. We are using high frame rate IP cameras and 4k security cameras with audio. These allow us to not only record and monitor our tests, but also to reliably stream them at higher qualities and from more angles than ever before, while being able to safely operate them from Mission Control.

We are confident that the footage we capture will allow us to continue to promote rocketry and space exploration among the engineering community!