Over the past fifteen years, MER has had several NASA SBIR Phase II programs in the area of space technology, based upon carbon‐carbon (C–C) composites. In addition, in November 2004, leading edges supplied by MER provided the enabling technology to reach a Mach 10 record for an air breathing engine on the X‐43 A flight. The MER business model constitutes a spin‐off of technologies initially by incubating in house, and ultimately creating spin‐off stand alone companies. FMC was formed to provide for technology transfer in the area of fabrication of C–C composites. FMC has acquired ISO 9000 and AS9100 quality certifications. FMC is fabricating under AS9100 certification, flight parts for several flight programs. In addition, FMC is expanding the application of carbon‐carbon composites to several critical military programs. In addition to space technology transfer to critical military programs, FMC is becoming the world leader in the commercial area of low‐cost C–C composites for furnace fixtures. Market penetrations have been accomplished in North America, Europe and Asia. Low‐cost, quick turn‐around and excellent quality of FMC products paves the way to greatly increased sales. In addition, FMC is actively pursuing a joint venture with a new partner, near closure, to become the leading supplier of high temperature carbon based composites. In addition, several other spin‐off companies such as TMC, FiC, Li‐Tech and NMIC were formed by MER with a plethora of potential space applications.
Dual Space Technology Transfer
SPACE, PROPULSION & ENERGY SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL FORUM: SPESIF‐2009 ; 2009 ; Huntsville (Alabama)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 1103 , 1 ; 423-428
16.03.2009
6 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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