{"id":70606,"date":"2017-07-05T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/carbon-nanotube-reinforce-composites-can-reduce-space-vehicle-mass"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:01:03","slug":"carbon-nanotube-reinforce-composites-can-reduce-space-vehicle-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/carbon-nanotube-reinforce-composites-can-reduce-space-vehicle-mass","title":{"rendered":"Carbon nanotube reinforce Composites can reduce space vehicle mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-nanotube-reinforce-composites-can-reduce-space-vehicle-mass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/nanotechnology-flight-test-material-impact-on-the-future\" target=blank>NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology \u2013 an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.<\/a> NASA computer modeling analysis has shown that composites using carbon nanotube reinforcements could lead to a 30 percent reduction in the total mass of a launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo single technology would have that much of an impact to reduce the mass of a launch vehicle by that much,\u201d explains Michael Meador, Program Element Manager for Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing at NASA\u2019s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Tensile properties of a carbon nanotube fiber-based composite tank were tested in a May 16 test flight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/07\/carbon-nanotube-reinforce-composites-can-reduce-space-vehicle-mass-by-30.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/07\/carbon-nanotube-reinfo...by-30.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology \u2013 an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems. NASA computer modeling analysis has shown that composites using carbon nanotube reinforcements could lead to a 30 percent reduction in the total mass of a launch vehicle. \u201cNo single [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70656,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70606\/revisions\/70656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}