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Flight Hardware
MR&D’s primary flight hardware activities include:
- Design of the Carbon-Carbon nose leading edges for the X-43A
- Design and fabrication of a CMC blast heat shield for the AV-8B Harrier aircraft
- Design support to ATK for the Chemical Vapor Infiltrated C/SiC Plug Repair for Space Shuttle Reinforced Carbon-Carbon Wing Leading Edges
- Design of Carbon-Carbon radiator panels for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Orbiting Satellite (EOS-1)
- Design of high thermal conductivity organic matrix composite thermal doublers for the Lockheed-Martin Traveling Wave Tube Arrays for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Design of high thermal conductivity organic matrix composite PCI-format thermal planes for the Lockheed Martin Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
C-C nose leading edges for X-43A:
- Fabric preform woven by Textile Technologies, Inc. per MR&D fabric specification
- C-C composite and layered HfC and SiC coating fabricated by MER
CMC Blast heat shield for AV-8B Harrier aircraft:
CVI C/SiC Plug Repair for Space Shuttle RCC WLE:
- Subcontractor to ATK Thiokol
- 0/60/-60 3000oF heat treated T-300 1k fiber in CVI SiC matrix
- C/SiC composite manufactured by GE CCP, Newark, DE