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News Published on 6/5/2024
Rocket Lab completes second PRE-FIRE rocket launch

The second of two Electron launches for NASA successfully lifted off and deployed a climate monitoring satellite just 11 days after the first launch.

 

News Published on 10/2/2024
Reaction Dynamics earns CSA grant for composite propellant tanks, hybrid rocket fuel

The $1.5 million grant boosts the Canadian company’s goal to advance its Aurora orbital launch vehicle program.

News Published on 2/29/2024
Firefly Aerospace doubles Texas facilities to support composite rockets

Company grows test stands, further implements AFP and seven-axis robotic powermill machinery to produce rockets up to nine times faster at 1/7th of the cost.

News Published on 7/24/2024
Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket makes inaugural launch

Carbon fiber launch vehicle powered into space in early July, demonstrating its ability to launch missions from low-Earth orbit and into deep space.

News Published on 10/16/2024
On the radar: Reusable launch vehicles, hypersonics make space more accessible

CFRP has become key to targeting efforts in reusing components like rocket stages, as well as the development of reusable hypersonic testbeds and spaceplanes, for increasing space commercialization.

News Published on 6/6/2023
ULA Vulcan rocket progresses closer to launch

The company’s first Vulcan Cert-1 rocket is complete and is headed to its launch site for flight readiness verification tests.

News Published on 8/9/2024
Arceon introduces novel CMC materials for space, defense

Carbeon C/C-SiC ceramic matrix composites are being developed and tested for rocket nozzles, onboard the International Space Station and in electric aviation, metal treatment and reactor applications.

News Published on 4/4/2025
Airbus to design, build ESA ExoMars rover lander platform

The resurrected Rosalind Franklin composite rover mission’s key systems will be upgraded with support from the TAS, ESA and NASA for a planned launch in 2028.

News Published on 4/29/2024
ISRO C/C composite nozzle development enhances rocket engines

Durable composite nozzle can replace metal versions for mass reduction and payload capacity boost in launch vehicles.

News Published on 4/11/2024
ILAuNCH Trailblazer project to use AM technologies to produce large-scale composite rockets

ILAuNCH partnership, joined by ANU and New Frontier Technologies, will develop a qualified manufacturing process that will directly contribute to the development of launch vehicle development.

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