Carbon Fiber-Filled – EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer) rubber is a critical high temperature insulation material used to protect the casing and nozzle metal hardware on the Reusable Solid Rocket Motors (RSRM) of NASA’s Space Shuttle from the extreme motor environment during launch. The CFF-EPDM is subjected to temperatures in excess of 5,000°F (2,760°C).
SGL Group’s subsidiary, Hitco, has been the sole provider of CFF-EPDM to NASA’s Space Shuttle Program since the beginning of the program. Hitco maintains strict adherence to CFF-EPDM manufacturing specifications ensuring a consistent and high quality material is produced each lot. The safety of NASA’s astronauts depends upon this quality and consistency
Turning space technology into business
23 September 2009For the fifth time, ESA hosted this month the one-week CEMS kick-off seminar for students from leading European management schools to learn about technology transfer and what it takes to turn space technology breakthroughs into viable non-space businesses. Organised by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office in cooperation with ESA Human Spaceflight’s Erasmus Centre as well as the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (RSM), the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) seminar gives students the chance to work with space technology and to discover its exploitation potential. CEMS is a strategic alliance of leading European business schools and multinational companies and its first mission is to set a global standard of excellence for university master students in business management.
Niels Eldering, Technology Transfer Officer at ESA and member of the jury, commented, "space business is very international, as well as entrepreneurial. The European space community requires business and technical professionals to work together on a daily basis, especially when it concerns exploitation of space based technologies in new markets. These CEMS students proved to be capable of doing just that. They really came up with bright, unexpected ideas." [ http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM62VJIWZF_index_0.html]♦ SD Hyperion ♦
CryoSat ready for launch: Media Day at IABG/Munich4 September 2009
ESA PR 21-2009. On Monday 14 September media representatives will have the opportunity to attend an in-depth CryoSat background briefing at IABG’s spacecraft test centre in Ottobrunn near Munich, Germany.CryoSat will acquire accurate measurements of the thickness of floating sea-ice. http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM5KGFF5ZF_index_0.html♦ SD Hyperion ♦
CryoSat will acquire accurate measurements of the thickness of floating sea-ice. http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM5KGFF5ZF_index_0.html♦ SD Hyperion ♦
