Webinar: CW Tech Days: New Space Applications by Gardner Business Media, Inc. Webinars

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CW Tech Days: New Space Applications

About

Composites have been used in space since our early steps into the cosmos. Often turned to for their light weight and high strength, these materials have a history of use in spaceflight in such applications as payload fairings, satellite structures and heat shields.

Today, private companies are partnering with NASA and the ESA in new and exciting ways. Creating everything from telescoping arrays on small satellites to spacecraft and lander components, commercial space companies have helped to streamline the production of mission-enabling parts and structures. Composite materials are playing a ever-growing role in a wide range of these applications including launch systems, landing struts, load bearing structures, propulsion systems, thermal protection systems and many others.

This CW Tech Days virtual event will explore the technologies, materials and strategies used by composites manufacturers working in the evolving space market.

You can learn more about the event schedule and sessions here: https://www.compositesworld.com/kc/tech-days-space

Agenda

Composite structures for space applications
Composites cryotanks, CFRP structures
Composite structures for a new space age
Quartz in space applications
Enabling high rate production of space flight hardware
Lightweight satellite construction

Presenters

Ross Adams

Senior Business Partner, Markforged

Claire Baker

Segment Manager, Space and Communications, EMEA; Toray Advanced Composites

With experience in composite materials across a wide variety of sectors, hands-on R&D roles and commercial experience, Claire is responsible for leading Toray Advanced Composites' (TAC) activities in space and communications, tracking markets to find future trends with which to align and build the TAC product range of prepregs and complementary products.

Anthony Grasso

Marketing and Business Development Manager, Saint-Gobain

Anthony is the marketing and business development manager for Saint-Gobain's Advanced Ceramic Composites (ACC) group. His background is in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and also has an MBA from Middle Tennessee State University. Since joining Sain-Gobain in 2017, Anthony has worked in R&D and sales and is now in business development in a variety of business units within Saint-Gobain. Anthony works to promote the existing business of the ACC, focused primarily on the aerospace and defense markets in North America and Asia while facilitating new product developments and growth with new customers and opportunities.

Cedric Jacob

Director of Operations, Rocket Lab

Cedric Jacob is the director of operations for Rocket Lab’s Space Structures Complex. His previous engineering design and composites manufacturing experience includes stints with Albany Engineered Composites and Meggit.

Peter Ortmann

Head of Automated Fiber Placement, MT Aerospace

As the head of AFP at MT Aerospace, Peter has expertise in composites manufacturing development, including: winding of pressure tanks, automated fiber placement, vacuum infusion and prepreg technologies.

Jeremy Senne

Director, Space Structures; Rock West Composites

Bernd Thoma

Head of Composite Research and Technology Programs, MT Aerospace

With experience at MT Aerospace, Volocopter GmbH and Fraunhofer ICT, Dr. Thoma has a background in composite tool design and fabrication, composite materials and process selection, composite part fabrication, composite structure assembly, aircraft assembly, and plant layout design.

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