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The Large Optical Test and Integration Site (LOTIS) Facility at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, CA has been design specifically to accommodate assembly, integration, and testing of optical payloads from as small as 1 meter class apertures to as large as 6 meters. The facility has successfully reached initial operational capability and a basic overview of the LOTIS Facility has been previously reported including wavefront performance [1], its potential for optical payload testing has been previously reported [2]. The facility has been engineered from the foundation up to provide an ideal single location for optical payloads including details such as crane access, clean room space and levels, vibration levels, and atmospheric turbulence levels within the facility especially the interior of the vacuum chamber containing the 6.5 meter collimator. This paper will present and overview of the facility in general and then present results of the vibration isolation bench performance and resulting line of sight jitter of the collimator, as well as atmospheric turbulence measurements within the chamber.
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