Collier Research Corporation of Hampton, Virginia, licensed software developed at Langley Research Center to reduce design weight through the use of composite materials. The first license of NASA-developed software, it has now been used in everything from designing next-generation cargo containers, to airframes, rocket engines, ship hulls, and train bodies. The company now has sales of the NASA-derived software topping $4 million a year and has recently received several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to apply its software to nearly all aspects of the new Orion crew capsule design.


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    Title :

    Tools Lighten Designs, Maintain Structural Integrity


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2009-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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