The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD, launched the European headquarters in Dublin of AMPAC-ISP, a global space technology firm that makes components for the aerospace industry. AMPAC-ISP has established a new space technology development and manufacturing centre... (Continue reading)
A new cleanroom for manufacturing solar cells is to open in Oberlin, Ohio after almost 40 years of product development. The idea to build super concentrated solar energy system first occurred to Bernard Sater 40 years ago when he was working... (Continue reading)
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has successfully completed stray light testing of the Operational Land Imager (OLI) telescope assembly for NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission. The first of its kind stray light test was conducted at Ball’s new Stray Light Test... (Continue reading)
In response to growing demand by Aerospace OEM and MRO customers, Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB) www.pacamor.com in Troy, NY, has expanded its Class 10,000 Cleanroom Environment. The new ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100:2004 certified manufacturing cleanroom space has been dramatically... (Continue reading)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 9, will be the focus of a media opportunity at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, at the... (Continue reading)
Alliant Techsystems (ATK), broke ground yesterday on a 25,000 square foot expansion of the company’s facility in Goleta, California. The expanded operations will support NASA’s human space flight program, as well as global weather satellites and possible future spacecraft missions. The... (Continue reading)
Pacamor in response to growing demand by Aerospace OEM and MRO customers, Pacamor Kubar Bearings (PKB) www.pacamor.com in Troy, NY, is expanding its Class 10,000 Cleanroom Environment. Scheduled for completion in Q4 ’09, the current ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100:2004 certified... (Continue reading)
Lockheed Martin Corporation has donated the labor required to erect a class 10,000 clean room to the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). This clean room will help protect our refurbished 1960’s era Ampex FR-900 tape drives... (Continue reading)