Materials & Manufacturing Airbus and Boeing Test Faster Composite Curing, but Assembly Remains the Bottleneck Edward CollinsAugust 18, 2026August 18, 20260 Removing the autoclave will not, by itself, make composite airframes suitable for single-aisle production. Airbus and Boeing are evaluating lower-infrastructure…
Materials & Manufacturing NASA Cuts Rocket Thrust Chamber Weight Over 40% by Eliminating Joints Edward CollinsAugust 14, 2026August 14, 20260 More than 40% is an unusually large mass reduction for mature rocket propulsion hardware. NASA achieved that reported reduction in…