Advanced Composites Project
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NASA is addressing improved methods, tools, and protocols to reduce the development and certification timeline for composite materials and structures. It is inevitable that composite structures will see increased application due to the pressure to develop more efficient, sustainable vehicles.
Advanced Composites News
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For NASA’s aeronautical innovators, when it comes to designing the next generation of passenger-carrying airplanes, you can think of it…
Editor’s note: This project has concluded. This content is being kept online for historical purposes, but is no longer being…
Flying farther, faster, and with less fuel, meaning a cheaper ticket for commercial air travelers. That’s just one of the…
Six organizations joined NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium this past year making the consortium 13 members strong. Recent additions to the…
Editor’s note: This project has concluded. This content is being kept online for historical purposes, but is no longer being…
Editor’s note: This project has concluded. This content is being kept online for historical purposes, but is no longer being…
NASA has established a public-private partnership with five organizations to advance knowledge about composite materials that could improve the performance…
It wasn’t the first ribbon cutting ceremony at NASA’s Langley Research Center, nor is it likely to be the last.…
A robot named ISAAC — born with a versatile, spinning head and a robust, acrobatic arm — promises to give…
It looks like something out of a “Transformers” movie – a huge robotic arm that moves and spins to pick…
NASA has selected six companies from five U.S. states to participate in a government-and-industry partnership to advance composite materials research…
Robot ISAAC Demonstrates Its Moves
Here’s a look at ISAAC robot, a system that will add muscle to composite materials and structures research at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. ISAAC, which stands for Integrated Structural Assembly of Advanced Composites, will be put to work after a Jan. 26, 2015, commissioning ceremony.
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