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The wind energy market has long been considered the world’s largest market, by volume, for glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites — and increasingly, carbon fiber composites — as larger turbines and longer wind blades are developed, requiring higher performance, lighter weight materials. The outer skins of wind and tidal turbine blades generally comprise infused, GFRP laminates sandwiching foam core. Inside the blade, rib-like shear webs bonded to spar caps reinforce the structure. Spar caps are often made from GFRP or, as blade lengths lengthen, pultruded carbon fiber for additional strength.

Suppliers, fabricators and OEMs across the composite wind blade supply chain ramp up existing technologies, develop better reclamation methods and design more recyclable wind blades.

TESS exoplanet survey satellite and United Launch Alliance Atlas V launches mark recent successes for aerospace technology leader Orbital ATK.

The partnerships will advance the commercial space sector and help bring new capabilities to market that could benefit future NASA missions.

The company says it will complete its XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator by December, with flight tests next year.

NASA has announced the companies that will conduct research and build prototypes, and build the PPE spacecraft for its Artemis missions.

Carboman Group will display a carbon fiber composite fuselage for Eviation’s all-electric regional aircraft Alice at the 2019 Paris Air Show.

With the European Commission Restrictions Roadmap soon banning entire classes of chemical substances found in fossil fuel-based synthetic polymers, the space industry is looking to a chemical combination to produce competitive thermoset resins.

Although the term drone for the most part has been synonymous with machines built to fly, sailboat drones designed and built by Saildrone (Alameda, CA, US) are poised to replace for expensive (and manned) research ships and stationary buoy systems that now gather marine data.

I believe climate change is at least partly caused by the increase in CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.

Rockwood Composites has used composites to successfully assemble the central core for the UK’s newest fusion device, Tokamak Energy’s ST40.