Industry Related News: United States – March, 2021: The team at NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics laboratory have been working for years on the development of DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). This project is referred to as a kinetic impactor and is meant to disrupt and ultimately change the trajectory of [...]
Industry Related News: United States – January, 2021: The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter launched aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover on July 30, 2020 and is set to arrive on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021. This is the culmination of years of planning, preparation, and extensive Mars thermal testing and environmental testing from [...]
Industry Related News: United States – December, 2020: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has endured rigorous testing throughout the back half of 2020, hitting major milestones like its tower deployment, environmental and thermal tests, and now a deployment and tension test for the telescope’s sunshield. They are hitting their targets in order to launch [...]
Industry Related News: United States – November, 2020: The engineering team at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been continuing their work on one of the longest running hypersonic flight thermal testing and research programs in the world. The team works in materials science, developing compounds that can [...]
Industry Related News: United States – October, 2020: UConn physicist Ilya Sochnikov and his students recently made an important discovery regarding the superconductive abilities of strontium titanate, a common material in electronics. When in an ideal state, the compound's atoms oscillate in synchronicity, which forces the surrounding electrons to move in a neat [...]
Industry Related News: United States – September, 2020: The team behind NASA’s Artemis lunar missions has been preparing the gear and components of their vessels for not only the heavy toll of exiting the atmosphere, but on the landing and continued survival of the craft on the surface of the moon itself. They recently [...]
Industry Related News: United States – August, 2020: A new alloy was recently developed and announced by a team of researchers at Tohoku University in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The team added chromium to a Fe-Mn-Al-Ni alloy to create a superelastic compound. Throughout their thermal testing, they also discovered that changing the amount of [...]
Industry Related News: United States – July, 2020: NASA’s newest Mars rover has experienced intense and thorough testing in all categories to ensure that it is prepared to survive in the harshest conditions. Perseverance went through a gauntlet of tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition to high-force shake and vibration tests, supersonic [...]
Industry Related News: United States – June, 2020: Tenacity is the first space-worthy craft in the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser line of spaceplanes, and they have just announced the latest addition to its design. The team at SNC has developed Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles in order to protect the craft on [...]
Industry Related News: United States – May, 2020: The booming landscape of solar energy conversion just hit an important new milestone in Sydney, Australia as Professor Anita Ho-Baillie and her team successfully passed the rigorous thermal testing of the International Electrotechnical Commission on their perovskite solar cell project. The metal halide perovskite compound [...]
