Aerospace
NASA orders second SpaceX ISS crew mission
This is the fourth and final guaranteed order NASA will make under Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts.
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Imagining the utility of IoT in our increasingly data-driven age
ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan imagines one potential outcome of the Internet of Things: inline composite part inspection.
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Gardner Business Index at 43.3 in June
Compared with one year ago, future capital spending plans are up by 43%.
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The FAA: Keeping up with aerocomposites evolution
Composite and metallic structures must conform to the same performance-based standard of safety.
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Follow the leader — or maybe not
The easy explanation for lack of proliferation of carbon composites is the “not invented here” syndrome.
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Electric power for aircraft on the horizon
As a general aviation enthusiast and co-pilot — my husband and I fly a Mooney on occasion — I have been closely following the news about the Solar Impulse plane and the team’s historic round-the-world flight, on solar power alone.
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NASA considers carbon nanotube mirrors for cubesat telescope
The carbon nanotube/epoxy combination is being evaluated for the fabrication of mirrors on cubesats for planetary space exploration and Earth observations.
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Highlights from 10th Intl. CFK Valley Stade Convention 2016
Annual conference featured new carbon composite technologies.
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Building a market for recycled carbon fiber
Recycling uncured and cured carbon fiber was once a challenge, but that hurdle has been cleared. The difficulty we have now is in developing a market for what has become a mountainous amount of recycled material. CW's Carbon Fiber 2016 conference will address this issue.
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Next-generation pressure vessels in space
After a name change, next on the horizon for Infinite Composites Technologies is supplying Type V tanks to the space race.
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