Orion is Launched by a Delta IV Rocket to 3600 Miles Above Earth Orion’s first test flight was launched aboard a Delta IV heavy rocket on Dec. 5. After Orion completed one orbit, the upper stage fired again, and started a climb to 3600 miles above Earth. After reaching that altitude, equipment on board measured […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, announces that researchers have developed a tungsten-chromium-iron powder metallurgy alloy that could replace depleted uranium in armor-piercing projectiles.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., announces that an object has been additively manufactured in space for the first time.
Seco Warwick, Meadville, Pa., announces that it has sold a standard Vector 2 bar vacuum furnace to Service Heat Treating, Milwaukee, a provider of case hardening and vacuum processing of medium to large production runs.
The Center for Heat Treating Excellence, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., is working on a research project to test the benefits and limitations of induction tempering versus furnace tempering.
