Aerospace & Defense (DC) Archives - American Composites Manufacturers Association

Europe’s Metop-SGA1 Orbiting Weather Satellite Launched

August 22, 2025

Arianespace launched EUMETSAT’s Metop-SGA1 (Metop – Second Generation, 1), the first of a series of six polar-orbiting weather satellites, into orbit. EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for...

NASA Takes Delivery of Lockheed Martin’s Orion Spacecraft for the Artemis II Mission

May 19, 2025

Assembly and testing are complete, and Lockheed Martin’s Orion spacecraft has been transferred to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion is...

Carbon Fiber: The Next Target for LFI

November 19, 2024

For more than two decades, the long fiber injection (LFI) process has provided time, money and labor savings to manufacturers of glass fiber and polyurethane resin composite parts for...