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CTD�s TEMBO Elastic Memory Composites (EMC) applications in prosthetics and sporting goods highlighted in Missile Defense Agency publication �TechUpdate�
September 1, 2009
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CTD Heater Cable Technology for Oil Shale Recovery featured
in Technology Review article
April 8, 2009
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CTD Heater Cable Technology for Oil Shale Recovery featured
in Colorado Energy News article
April 1, 2009
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CTD TEMBO� Reflector Technology featured in Space News article
April 1, 2009
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CTD Successfully Demonstrates the
Application of a Ceramic-Composite Insulated Heater Cable for Oil
Shale Recovery
March 31, 2009
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TEMBO� Reflectors provide Higher Frequency and Larger Aperture Satellite Capabilities
January 30, 2008
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CTD Named to Boulder Daily Camera Top 25 list of Women Owned Businesses
in Boulder County, Colorado.
November 15, 2007
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CTD article on Elastic Memory Composite Stiffeners for a Flexible Precision
Reflector featured in Composites in
Manufacturing 2nd Quarter 2007 online journal.
November 15th, 2007
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Composite Technology Development, Inc. President Naseem Munshi Named Ernst &
Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 for the Technology Sector
Lafayette, Colorado, June 21, 2007
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Astronaut Sunita Williams successfully completed all test protocols intended
for the Elastic Memory Composite Hinge (EMCH) experiment.
Lafayette, Colorado, May 26, 2007
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TEMBO® EMC Hinge |
EMCH was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on December 9, 2006, Followed shortly by the first on-orbit
deployment of a CTD TEMBO® EMC hinge, when on December 16, 2006, two TEMBO® hinges deployed a solar array on the
AFRL's TacSat 2 satellite. This heritage of space performance will ensure future mission managers that TEMBO®
composites are ready to fly.
The TEMBO® hinge has been designed as a low-cost, highly reliable alternative to mechanical hinge mechanisms.
Several characteristics of this hinge make it a favorable alternative to the higher mass, higher cost, and more
complex mechanical hinges. Thus, TEMBO® hinges are being pursued for multiple space deployable applications,
ranging from the deployment of rigid panel solar arrays, to the deployment of segmented high-precision NASA
optical reflectors. In addition, TEMBO® composites are being used by CTD in the RAPDAR, Roll-out and Passively
Deployed Array, a lightweight, space qualified, deployable solar array uses thin film photovoltaic technology
along with TEMBO® materials to provide more satellite power with less mass and at a lower cost than other solar
arrays. CTD is also using TEMBO® materials to develop large aperture, high frequency reflectors, that provide
more bandwidth at a lower cost than current reflector designs.
CTD would like to express our thanks to AFRL, the Air Force Space Test Program (STP) and NASA, and most
particularly to Astronaut Sunita Williams - who did all the hard stuff and made it look easy. Upon completing
her tasks on EMCH, Astronaut Williams said, "This stuff is awesome. You guys (the EMCH team) are leading the
way for the next generation of aircraft and spacecraft. Thanks for your efforts."
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First operational space mission for Elastic Memory Composite Hinge
Second flight for CTD in less than two weeks
Lafayette, Colorado, December 16, 2006
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Elastic Memory Composite Hinge In Orbit Aboard Discovery
December 9, 2006
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AFRL Delivers Linerless Composite Tanks For Nanosat-3 (PDF Download)
December 7, 2006
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Elastic Memory Composite Hinge Launch Scheduled for December 7th,2006
November 29th, 2006
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Elastic Memory Composite Hinge to be on International Space Station
October 10th, 2006
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CTD's DOE Phase II SBIR from the U.S. Department of Energy for High Energy Physics
was reported in the August 7 issue of Superconductor Week.
August 18th, 2006
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Linerless Composite Pressure Vessel Qualified for Flight
August 1st, 2006
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Boulder Daily Camera Highlights CTD
May 22nd, 2006 |
Seven CTD Papers debut at SDM Conference
May 3rd, 2006 |
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Today, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Astronaut Sunita Williams successfully completed all test
protocols intended for the Elastic Memory Composite Hinge (EMCH) experiment. Sponsored by the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL), the EMCH test campaign demonstrated the robustness and reliability of the TEMBO® EMC hinge in
the zero-gravity environment of space. This test campaign consisted of both nominal and off-nominal conditions,
with the final series of tests presenting the most challenging conditions for on-orbit TEMBO® hinges. The
successful completion of these tests indicate that CTD's TEMBO® hinges meet the designed performance goals of
a next-generation spaceflight-qualified actuator. Additionally, the science gained from this experiment confirms
engineering assumptions used to design the TEMBO® EMC hinges, as well as other TEMBO® EMC deployable structures
that are being developed for space applications. EMCH will return to earth aboard a future shuttle allowing the
Air Force and CTD to perform post-flight evaluation of the experimental hardware.
