Posted on 11/15/2018 Source: Design News By: Rob Spiegel Sierra Nevada engineers used Collier Research software for sizing optimization of composite structures for the NASA-contracted cargo-resupply vehicle. With a go-ahead from NASA for a first mission to the...
Posted on 5/15/2018 Source: Net Composites With the go-ahead from NASA for a first mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser spacecraft team is now reviewing flight performance data and refining the...
Posted on 10/30/2015Source: CompositesWorld CW guest columinst Collin Petersen (Janicki Industries, Sedro-Woolley, WA, US) suggests the use of more traditional analysis methods, where it is sensible to do so, making your finite element analysis (FEA) significantly...
Posted on 3/1/2015 Source: NASA Orion The Orion spacecraft enables NASA to make the next giant leap in deep space exploration. It is built upon 50 years of human space flight mission experience and will enable astronauts to travel farther into space than ever before...
Posted on 10/21/2014 Source: Product Design & Development Protected by the shell of its huge launch-rocket during blastoff, NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) must get back to earth on its own at mission’s end. The flight plan for this...
Posted on 7/9/2013Source: Machine Design Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., are developing a Common Bus spacecraft made of stackable octagonal rings and off-the-shelf parts to form small landers, orbiters, or rovers. The squat octagons...
