The Agilent HLD BD15 Bench Dry Leak Detector uses a mass spectrometer tuned to detect helium, which is used as a tracer gas to locate and/or measure very small leaks in enclosed devices or systems.

SpaceX currently operates close to 6,500 Starlink satellites in orbit and has plans to loft thousands more. The satellites ...

A launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed on Sunday due to a helium leak. The SpaceX Starlink 6-77 mission, meant to deliver 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, was scheduled to ...

Liquid leak detectors sense when a liquid is leaking from a pipe, tank, or other receptacle. Leaks are often conceptualized as being small, round defects which allow liquid to seep out of a pipe or ...

A report by CBS reveal that NASA was aware of a helium leak before the launch but considered it too minor to pose a safety risk. However, after reaching orbit, the spacecraft developed four ...

but SpaceX held the countdown at two minutes and 36 seconds due to what appears to be a helium leak. "Hold, hold, hold. Standing down for helium, stage one," a SpaceX team member called out during ...