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New Material Options for Space Launch Vehicle Production

May 8, 2020

With rapid growth in the space exploration industry, there is great demand for fuel efficient, lightweight vehicles with increased capacity for payload. Advances in production materials offer several viable options for space manufacturers.

Next Generation Materials for Space Launch Vehicles, a paper by EWI Applications Engineer Mike Eff, examines the material needs of today’s LVs and reviews recent innovations in the development, manufacturability, and implementation of available alloys.

You are invited to download this paper, at no charge, by completing the form on this page.

If you would like to learn about lightweight materials for LV production, contact Mike Eff at [email protected]. For more on EWI’s work for the space exploration industry, click here.

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