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HIA Main Office Building NRC-HIA possesses a wide range of labs, equipment and facilities necessary to support the design, fabrication, test and integration of astrophysical instruments.

Facilities available to the Astronomy Technology Research Group in Victoria include:

Machine shops

Precision and large machine tools, CNC machines

Clean room

A 30 square metre class 100000 clean room

Sub-millimetre laboratory

Laboratory equipped with optical tables and high-frequency test equipment

Cold room

Large low-temperature test chamber

Integration and test shop

Large instrument integration/test shop with clean shroud and flexure test rigs

Electronics laboratory

Electronics laboratory with state-of-the-art test equipment