A lightweight telescope that a team of NASA scientists and engineers is developing could become the first to carry a mirror made of carbon nanotubes in an epoxy resin.
Following a million dollar partnership, the Arlington Research Institute (UTARI) at the University of Texas is set to develop new technologies to predict the strength and life expectancy of composite-based rotor blades used in aircraft. Endel Iarve, a research scientist ...
Engineers building NASA’s Orion are making manufacturing improvements for the spacecraft ahead of its missions to deep space destinations near the moon and on the journey to Mars. The Orion capsule’s heat shied successfully survived its test flight last year ...
Looking more like the inside of a sports car than an astronaut taxi, SpaceX has unveiled the first images and videos from inside its new Crew Dragon capsule. The capsules are being developed by SpaceX for NASA to carry astronauts ...
NASA has one of the largest composites manufacturing robots ever created in America, and it will be used to build the biggest, lightweight composite parts ever made for space vehicles. The Marshall space flight centre in Alabama has been investing ...
A prototype of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-m for short is planned to be ready for launch from a high altitude balloon later this year. The Prandtl–m will be released at about at 100,000 ...