July 1, 2011. Livermore, California. Ultracor has received AS9100C certification. Management views this as an important milestone in the development of the company. Ultracor pursued the certification in order to raise its quality systems to the highest level.
June 1, 2011. Livermore, California. Ultracor, a market leader in engineered composite honeycomb design and fabrication, announced that it had been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to continue development of a silicon-carbide ceramic honeycomb for advanced flight structures. Based upon its successful completion of a Phase I SBIR focusing on the development and mechanical testing of C-SiC honeycomb, Ultracor received the follow-on funding to continue development of ultra-high-temperature CMC honeycomb.
March 18, 2010. Livermore, California. Ultracor, a market leader in engineered composite honeycomb design and fabrication, announced that its quartz honeycomb will continue to serve as a high performance constituent material in the Galileo GPS constellation. Thales Alenia Space originally selected Ultracor quartz honeycomb for the first four Galileo satellites scheduled for launch later in 2010. Germany’s OHB, which won a contract for the next eight satellites, has selected Thales Alenia Space to supply the antennas, thus ratifying the original antenna design using Ultracor quartz honeycomb.
January 31, 2010. Livermore, California. Ultracor, a market leader in engineered composite honeycomb design and fabrication, announced that it has been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract to begin development of a silicon-carbide ceramic honeycomb for advanced flight structures. Based upon its flight heritage in carbon-carbon ceramic composites, Ultracor proposed a honeycomb structure to be infiltrated with SiC vapor to produce a material resistant to heat up to 2700F while retaining its structural integrity and strength. The material should be a candidate for hypersonic flight structures.
March 31, 2009. Livermore, California. Ultracor, a market leader in engineered composite honeycomb design and fabrication, announced that it has been selected by NASA and Textron Defense Systems as the specified honeycomb for development as a constituent material in the Orion heatshield. Textron selected Ultracor to research and develop a material comparable with the honeycomb utilized on the original Apollo heatshield. As time and technologies change, Ultracor engineered and fabricated a material grounded in the heritage of early human spaceflight updated with the high quality production techniques developed by Ultracor during its fifteen year history. Ultracor is proud to be a part of the next generation of American space exploration.
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