Category: Aerospace and Defense

Juno carries nine instruments, a titanium vault, and 3D printed brackets

Developed by Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale, Calif., the Juno spacecraft is hexagonal in shape, is 3.5 meters tall and 3.5 meters in diameter, and has a liftoff mass of about 8000 pounds.

Three Lego aluminum astronauts travel to Jupiter on Juno

The Lego Group, Sweden, provided three 1.5-inch figurines milled out of a single block of aluminum to ride to Jupiter on the Juno spacecraft: the astronomer Galileo, and the Greek gods Juno and Jupiter.

Atmosphere control system enables oxide-free annealing of steel, copper, brass

Linde LLC, Murray Hill, N.J., introduces the Hydroflex atmosphere control system, a universal solution for clean and bright oxide-free annealing of steel, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and brass with high reliability and repeatability.

New GE Aviation facilities to produce SiC fibers and ceramic matrix composites

GE Aviation, Cincinnati, has broken ground for two materials factories near Huntsville: One facility will produce SiC ceramic fiber, while the other will use SiC ceramic fiber to make tape for ceramic matrix composite components in jet engines and land-based gas turbines.

NioCorp and IBC to collaborate on scandium-containing aluminum alloys

NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colo., and IBC Advanced Alloys, Vancouver, announce that they have entered into a joint development agreement to investigate and develop applications for scandium-containing alloys of aluminum and other metals for multiple downstream markets.

Bodycote sponsors Periodic Table of Fictional Metals

Bodycote, Macclesfield, England, has produced the Periodic Table of Fictional Metals, elements that have appeared in classical myths, books, films, comic books, and computer games for many years, as creative people invented metals with mythical or magical qualities.

ASB Industries celebrates 70 years with Cold Spray reference book

ASB Industries Inc., Barberton, Ohio, is celebrating 70 years in business by producing High Pressure Cold Spray: Principles and Applications, a practical and useful, comprehensive and technically advanced in-depth look at the high-pressure cold spray process.

Nanolaminated MoAlB coating resists corrosion at high temperatures

Drexel University, Philadelphia, announces that a research team from Drexel, Linkoping University in Sweden, and Imperial College London, has produced a nanolaminated molybdenum-aluminum-boride coating that resists corrosion at high temperatures.

Solar builds 48-foot heat-treating vacuum furnace

Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, and Solar Manufacturing Inc., Souderton, Pa., are building the largest commercial heat treating vacuum furnace in the world.

Titan H8 vacuum furnace heat treating system improves speed, reliability, and versatility

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a Titan vacuum furnace system with two-bar gas quenching and PdMetrics predictive maintenance software platform to a company on the West Coast, where it will be used to manufacture components and systems for the aerospace industry.