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Ultramet manufactures rhenium components for the solid divert and attitude control system of the Standard Missile-3, one of which was used by the Navy on February 20, 2008, to intercept a broken spy satellite and explode its tank carrying toxic hydrazine rocket fuel.

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=35127

 

Ultramet’s open-cell ceramic foam was an enabling technology for a modified RV-4 aircraft that won the $50,000 Noise Prize in the 2007 CAFE Foundation’s NASA Personal Air Vehicle Centennial Challenge on August 11, 2007, in Santa Rosa, California. The muffler on the RV-4 was lined with Ultramet’s silicon carbide foam broadband sound absorber and was built using Ultramet’s assembly techniques. While flying at 192 mph, the aircraft operated at a noise level three times quieter than that of most small aircraft.

http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pav_pavchallenge_2007results.php

 

Ultramet’s work in advancing thermal protection systems, particularly for the scramjet, is featured in the July 2007 issue of Air Vehicles News and Accomplishments, published by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). In addition, AFRL is including Ultramet’s structural thermal protection system in its 2007 edition of AFRL Technology Milestones.

 

NASA has included four Ultramet SBIR programs among its “SBIR/STTR Success Stories”:

Fiber-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites for High-Temperature Environments

High Temperature Oxidation-Resistant Thruster Materials

High Temperature Turbine Blades

Lightweight Structural Foams from Ceramic Materials