Space
The emerging commercial space industry: Habitats and CubeSats
This sidebar to the September 2016 feature story on the emerging commercial space industry focuses on Habitats and CubeSats.
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The emerging commercial space industry: Google’s Lunar XPRIZE
This sidebar to the September 2016 feature story on the emerging commercial space industry focuses on Google’s Lunar XPRIZE.
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The emerging commercial space industry
A decade since NASA opened extraterrestrial space to potential use as a commercial industry workplace, CW traces the role composites have played in public/private progress toward that goal.
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Nanocomp Technologies Inc., Merrimack, NH, US
Its millimeter-length macro CNTs are finally realizing their commercial composites potential, with spacecraft applications leading the way.
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Massive Stratolaunch nears completion
Paul Allen's Vulcan Aerospace is working with Scaled Composites to build the largest aircraft yet made, and it uses a lot of composites. The plane, it is hoped, will deliver satellites into low-Earth orbit — affordably and efficiently.
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Precision design for deployable space structures
Enabling SMAP mission success, unprecedented design requirements were deftly managed using composites in the largest unfurling and rotating reflector to date.
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TenCate opens its European Centre of Excellence for thermoset composite materials
The opening follows a period of significant investment for the UK operation of TenCate Advanced Composites.
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NASA selects Sierra Nevada for Mars 2020 mission contracts
SNC will design and manufacture the descent brake, as well as actuators for the robotic arm and sample caching system.
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CFRP: Opportunities in orthopedics
Carbon fiber has a niche, but can it secure a larger piece of a high-growth pie?
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JEC World 2016, the full report
CompositesWorld's editors report on the technologies and products that caught our eye at JEC World 2016, in early March.
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