Aerospace
Blue Origin to manufacture its orbital launch vehicle at Space Coast
Blue Origin’s American-made BE-4 engine – the power behind its orbital launch vehicle – will be acceptance tested at the facility.
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NASA’s first flight of Orion with crew may not launch until 2023
It was originally scheduled for 2021, however, after a rigorous technical and programmatic review, the agency announced a new commitment to be ready for a launch with astronauts no later than April 2023.
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AVANCO: Driving the industrialization of CFRP structures
The AVANCO Group is producing high-quality CFRP parts into a wide array of applications from six production facilities in Germany and the US.
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Dielectric properties measurement drives NDT technology to composites market
Material-Wave Interactions Laboratories is ready to put its nondestructive, in-process quality control and lab-based antennas into the market; they measure anisotropic/dielectric/magnetic material properties at high scpeeds.
Read MoreAIAA Space and Aeronautics Forum: Mars on their mind
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space and Astronautics Forum was held in late August and featured robust discussion about missions to low-Earth orbit and to Mars.
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Aeroengine Composites, Part 2: CFRPs expand
Proven in fan blade/case applications, carbon fiber-reinforced polymers migrate to previously unanticipated destinations nearer the engine “hot zone.”
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Unprecedented flex designed into 777X composite wings
With a 235-ft/71.8m wingspan, and the latest in composite material and design technology, the 777X will fly with wings designed to flex up during flight, giving the plane greater glide capabilities. A new Boeing video sheds some light on the design.
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Composite brackets for life-of-aircraft service
Reinforced PEEK molding formulated for jet fuel/hydraulic fluid immersion.
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CW Business Index at 48.0 – Lowest since July 2013
Steve Kline, Jr. is the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of CompositesWorld magazine. Here, he presents the CompositesWorld Business Index, a measure of the relative health of the US composites industry, for the month of July 2015.
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Outer space: The “final frontier” is exciting again!
CW contributor Dale Brosius, a composites industry consultant and the chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), points to evidence that the composites industry will, once again, be the beneficiary of renewed drive for space exploration.
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