composites for advanced space and transportation systems
1Space Systems/Loral — (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is the wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space Communications. It was acquired in 1990 for $715 million by Loral Corp. from Ford Motor Company as the Space Systems Division of Ford Aerospace. The… …
2CASTS — abbr. Composites for Advanced Space and Transportation Systems …
3space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
4Space colonization — Artist Les Bossinas 1989 concept of Mars mission Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, or space habitation) is the concept of permanent human habitation outside of Earth. Although hypothetical at the present time,… …
5Space habitat — A pair of O Neill cylinders …
6Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
7Commercialization of space — A DIRECTV satellite dish on a roof Commercialization of space is the use of equipment sent into or through outer space to provide goods or services of commercial value, either by a corporation or state. Examples of the commercial use of space… …
8List of human spaceflight programs — For a chronological list of human spaceflights, including crews..., dates and mission summaries, see List of human spaceflights. This is a list of human spaceflight programs, including successful programs, programs that were canceled, and… …
9Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …
10Air Force Research Laboratory — Emblem of AFRL …
