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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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TEMBO® Reflectors provide Higher Frequency and Larger Aperture Satellite Capabilities
(Lafayette, Colorado) CTD TEMBO® antenna reflector technology can provide high frequency performance and more than triple the available aperture on a given satellite. The shape memory characteristics of the TEMBO® elastic memory composite (EMC) materials enable the high frequency performance expected from composite solid surface composite reflectors in a low cost, deployable antenna system. Currently where four 3 meter reflectors are stored on a satellite bus, TEMBO® reflectors can enable the storage of four 5 meter reflectors. Also, for smaller satellite applications, the packaging efficiency of the TEMBO® reflector systems will enable more satellites with larger reflector aperture to be packaged into smaller, lower cost launch vehicles.
Enabled by proprietary TEMBO® elastic memory composite materials, CTD has developed a series of lower cost antenna reflectors that provide cost-effective performance improvement for commercial, Department of Defense, and NASA applications. TEMBO® EMC structures are fabricated using conventional composite manufacturing processes, utilizing commercial carbon fiber reinforcements combined with CTD’s TEMBO® shape memory polymers, to provide high performance structures that can be efficiently packaged for launch and autonomously deployed for service while on orbit. TEMBO® EMC materials have flown in space and have successfully been qualified for space applications including out gassing and radiation durability. Composite structures made from TEMBO® EMC materials utilize a thermo-mechanical process that requires the application of heat and force to package the structure, and the application of only heat for the structure to deploy itself when on orbit. The energy requirement needed to heat the reflector on orbit for deployment has been designed to be well within the available power budget of most satellites.
Testing of a cassegranian, 3 Meter TEMBO® reflector engineering model has shown that:
- TEMBO® antenna reflectors meet Ku/Ka band surface accuracies
- TEMBO® reflectors can be successfully packaged (a 3 meter reflector was packaged to approximately a one meter diameter) without damaging the reflector or impacting surface accuracy
- Rf testing shows that TEMBO® reflectors perform like solid surface composite reflectors
- Thermal Distortion tests show that TEMBO® reflectors meet requirements for most reflector applications
  
Three meter diameter cassegranian TEMBO® Reflector engineering model used for packaging and deployment trials and for verifying design and performance assumptions with Rf and Thermal Distortion Testing
CTD plans to display a packaged 3 Meter TEMBO® reflector at Satellite 2008, February 25 to 28, 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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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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