STELIA Aerospace Composites has 35 years of experience designing, qualifying and manufacturing composite pressure vessels, including industrial filament winding capacity. Photo Credit: STELIA Aerospace Composites
CW readers will know about STELIA Aerospace (Toulouse, France) from our coverage of its thermoplastic composite fuselage demonstrator in the ARCHES TP project and my tour of the Méaulte facility in 2019. The company, however, has a deep reservoir of composites expertise, spanning multiple locations, parts and processes. STELIA Aerospace Composites (Salaunes, France) is located outside of Bordeaux. The site employs 330 people with 40,000 square meters of workshops and its own integrated test laboratory. It also comprises three core business segments: aerostructures, aircraft cabin components and filament-wound gas storage systems. The latter can be used for anything from oxygen to nitrogen to hydrogen, and has been a core business segment for more than 35 years.
FEC 2020 | The virtual experience
The international fusion community charts the progress of its craft.
The 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2020) took place on line from 10 to 15 May 2021.There was a time, before the invention of the internet, when conferences were the only opportunity to exchange the latest news, whether good or bad. In the field of fusion energy research, the Fusion Energy Conference (FEC), organized since 1961 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has offered a regular platform for the international research community to present the latest experimental results and to align the theoretical approaches. Sixty years after the start of the conference series, and even in the context of high-speed internet putting the world at each scientist s fingertips, the FEC remains the most important gauge to measure the progress made towards the taming of the atom.
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A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy is beginning officially today, and University of Michigan researchers were instrumental in the project s development.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, is an international collaboration under the aegis of the Department of Energy s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with primary funding from DOE s Office of Science. The project aims to create a 3D map of the universe, unraveling the mysterious dark energy. To complete its quest, the instrument will capture and study the light from tens of millions of galaxies and other distant objects in the universe.
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Astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) released a cosmic map using 2,400 galaxies in 1983. Now, CfA scientists are aiming to map 30 million.
In the largest quest yet to map the universe, an international team of researchers is using DESI, or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, to survey the skies. Observations officially began today, May 17, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona; the mission will last five years with the goal of mapping 30 million galaxies.
By surveying a vast volume of space, the scientists of the DESI collaboration, including a dozen from the CfA, will be able to address a myriad of questions in modern cosmology: how does the early universe create large-scale structures, how does gravity cause matter to collect and form galaxies, and what might be driving the enigmatic acceleration of the expansion of the universe?
FEC 2020 | E-conference opens, participation never higher
The 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) is off to an auspicious start. Open to the public for the first time thanks to the technical possibilities of an all-virtual format, the conference has attracted 3,400 attendees, including both full participants and observers.
FEC 2020 opens as a virtual conference on 10 May 2021 with the most participants recorded in 60 years of existence.Determined to view the all-virtual format as an opportunity instead of a constraint, the organizers of the conference the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and the ITER Organization have organized an innovative week-long program that takes full advantage of a powerful web platform.