The European Space Battery Test Centre consists of two areas, the Battery Test Facility and the Fuel Test Facility. The Test Centre has a wide range of equipment that has been selected and designed to provide maximum reliability. This includes:

Automated long-term life-testing stations - allowing electrical testing and characerisation of space-batteries and fuel cells in a controlled environmental and thermal cycling conditions. A data archive of all tested cells and batteries is maintained.

Thermal chambers with temperatures ranging from -60°C to +400°C.

Vacuum test chambers – able to reach 10-9 bar, equivalent to a billionth of standard atmospheric pressure.

Abuse test chamber – for small cells, including mechanical shock short-circuit and rapid charge-discharge.

Glove box – an inert atmosphere facility for battery examination.

The Fuel Cell Test Facility is equipped with the safety features necessary for working with large quantities of inflammable gases.