Applied Aerospace Structures Corp.
Composite/metal bonded complex assemblies, aircraft, spacecraft structures, ground systems. Autoclave, VARTM, oven-cure processes. Radomes, wing structures, space antennae, heat pipe panels, bus structures. Lightweight tooling development.As Seen In CompositesWorld
Orbital Sciences launch vehicle features AASC composite structures
Composites specialist Applied Aerospace Structures Corp. manufactured several composite structures for Orbital Sciences' Antares Launch Vehicle and Cygnus Service Module, which delivered supplies to the International Space Station.
SME: COMPOSITES Manufacturing 2013 colocates with AERODEF
Billed as "By Manufacturers. For Manufacturers," The Society of Manufacturing Engineers defense-related exhibitions were held side-by-side this year at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Spaceship Co. names Virgin Galactic aerostructure suppliers
Applied Aerospace Structures Corp., GFMI Aerospace & Defense and Triumph Aerospace Systems — Wichita have been qualified as primary aerostructure suppliers to The Spaceship Co. for composite components of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicles.
AASC to build Taurus II composite launch vehicle components
Applied Aerospace Structures Corp. will build five honeycomb-cored composite structures for the Taurus II launch vehicle.
- Thermoset materials
- Adhesive bonding
- Autoclave cure
- Hand layup
- Honeycomb structures
- Metal bonding
- Prototyping
- Surface treatment
- Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM)
- Aerospace, aircraft interior
- Aerospace, flight control surfaces
- Aerospace, fuselage/wing
- Aerospace, radomes
- Armor, composite
- Laminate panels, with core
- Laminate sheets, solid
- Marine, other
- Other composite structures
- CAD/CAM/CAE design
- Finite element modeling/analysis (FEM/FEA)
- Testing
- Testing, structural