Delaware Aerospace News (United States)

ILC Dover, a world leader in flexible materials and inflatable 3-D structures, announced today that they will be exhibiting at the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America show, August 16-18, 2011 in Washington DC, Booth 1825.

ILC Dover LP has been awarded a contract from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for design and fabrication of a Supersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (SIAD) which is to be tested in early 2012.

Thurgood Marshall Elementary School students have teamed up with Delaware AeroSpace Education Foundation (DASEF) in a unique competition, where the most creative student will play a role in the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Endeavor.

New product-OASIS Core allows customers to use system on their own computer.

Airbags will provide protection to the commercial crew capsule during land-landings and soften the impact for the occupants on the parachute decent to earth.

NASA’s Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE) launched flawlessly into the blue sky over Wallops Island Virginia. ILC Dover, working in close cooperation with NASA Langley Research Center, designed and manufactured the IRVE inflatable.

A lightweight inflatable habitat, designed and fabricated at ILC Dover LP in Frederica, Delaware, was deployed in January at McMurdo Station, Antarctica in collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Center and the National Science Foundation.