The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is using its expertise in forming and forging to bring the manufacture of space propellant tanks back to the UK.
A two-year collaboration, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), will see the AFRC collaborate with Airbus Defence and Space (DS) and TWI to explore advanced manufacturing methods for the tanks. The project will look at making the design more efficient and economical by producing the initial component to as near to net-shape as possible,…
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