Space

Space

RUAG Space closes in on 1,000 satellite milestone

With the separation of the latest 34 OneWeb satellites, RUAG Space is getting close to successfully placing its 1000th satellite in space.

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Aerospace

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical America’s NEXX Technologies partners with Tipton-Goss

MGCA advanced composites business unit to bring Tipton-Goss’ high-performance prepreg and film adhesive technologies to the advanced composites, space and aerospace markets.

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Carbon Fibers

Gravitilab, National Composites Centre to design new composite structures for suborbital launch vehicles

Gravitilab team is investigating, designing and trialing a carbon fiber propellant tank for its fleet of suborbital launch vehicles.

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Hydrogen Storage

Hanwha Solutions acquires Cimarron Composites, aims to be global leader in high-pressure tanks by 2030

Hanwha Cimarron LLC will build new $130 million production facility in Alabama to produce large-scale tanks for hydrogen transport, filling stations and support expansion into tanks for UAM, drones, launch vehicle rockets, defense, rail, cargo ships and more.

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Carbon Fibers

Firefly to become the premier supplier of spaceflight composite components for New Space industry

Negotiating to supply components, such as composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV), to external customers, as part of full product line and new space marketplace.

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Space

Lockheed Martin opens new facility, expands Orion spacecraft production

The STAR Center provides space for the new production phase of Orion, allowing future Orion spacecraft, beginning with the Artemis III mission, to be built faster.

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Space

NASA develops advanced composite solar sail system

The ACS3 mission expects to demonstrate the successful deployment of the composite boom solar sail in low-Earth orbit to guide the design of future, larger-scale composite solar sail systems.

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Space

NASA, Northrop Grumman finalize moon outpost living quarters contract

The habitation and logistics outpost (HALO), a critical components to the way station Gateway, will be assembled using a monolithic composite structure and aluminum honeycomb panels.

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Virgin Orbit automates composites machining processes for LauncherOne rockets

Part of the company’s larger strategy for reducing cycle times and labor costs on its composite-intensive rockets, a customized machine center from Multiax America solves composite machining challenges.

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Trends

Researchers work to prove out ultra-high-temperature CMC for NASA Interstellar Probe study

A recent study by Johns Hopkins and Advanced Ceramic Fibers LLC worked toward ceramic matrix composites able to withstand up to 3,500°C for space heatshields.

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CW Tech Days: High-Temp Composite Solutions