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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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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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EMCH Flight Hardware |
TEMBO®, CTD's Elastic Memory Composite (EMC) materials, blasted into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle
Discovery today at 6:47PM (MST)! The EMCH experiment, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, will
validate operation of TEMBO® EMC hinges in zero gravity. Astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 14 Flight
Engineer on the International Space Station (ISS), will operate EMCH, which is scheduled to remain on the
Station for 18 months. |
TEMBO® EMC Hinges were developed for deploying solar arrays, communications, and optical systems in space.
Combining carbon fiber reinforcement and shape memory polymers, TEMBO® composites replace complex mechanical
deployment systems with simpler and lighter ones.
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TEMBO® is the start of something big! Traditional size and scaling barriers for spacecraft deployable
systems will vanish. Future mission concepts requiring large lightweight structures are now near realization.
Based on TEMBO® materials, CTD is developing the RAPDAR (Roll-out and Passively Deployed Array), a new
lightweight deployable solar array that can provide more power to a satellite than current 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. |
For more information on EMCH please refer to: http://exploration.nasa.gov/programs/station/EMCH.html
or contact CTD (www.ctd-materials.com) and see how your solutions can take off
with TEMBO® hinges and deployable structures.
Read more about this on
CompositesWorld.com
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RAPDAR Solar Array
TEMBO® High Frequency,
Large Aperture Reflectors
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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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