Category: Industry Digest

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center, with partners from NASA Ames Research Center, NanoAvionics, and Santa Clara University’s Robotics Systems Lab, is developing a deployable lightweight composite boom and solar sail system for...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has many potential benefits for the aviation industry, including that it is non-destructive testing that could improve damage detection in composite structures, add safety to commercial aircraft, and based on the...

The team at Helicoid Industries saw the need for a lighter, stronger motorcycle helmet to enhance safety and performance for both consumer riders and competitive racers. The lighter helmet...

Motivation is a global disability charity that provides wheelchairs, training, and services to disabled people in low- and middle-income countries. More than 75 million people worldwide need a wheelchair,...

Lockheed Martin and General Motors are working together to develop lunar rovers to allow Artemis astronauts to explore the 95% of the Moon’s surface that has as of yet...

Partnering with Glosten, a design and consulting firm in the marine industry, and PelaStar, developer of the tension-leg platform floating wind turbine foundation, GE is designing and developing controls...

Using Arevo’s continuous industrial grade thermoplastic carbon fiber composite materials, Branch Creative designed the Scotsman electric scooter with both urban commuters and recreational riders in mind. Thanks to the...

The use of Continuous Composites’ proprietary Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) process allowed Siemens energy to replace a metallic generator component with a component built of composite materials. In...

The ALIA composite manned electric aircraft from BETA Technologies has been approved by the U.S. Air Force to fly in its Agility Prime program. AFWERX Agility Prime is a...