manufacturing

  • ISS Faces Another Coolant Leak Linked to Russian Hardware

    ISS Faces Another Coolant Leak Linked to Russian Hardware

    Russia’s Nauka module sprung a leak on Monday in the latest incident of faulty hardware on board the International Space Station (ISS). Flight controllers at NASA’s mission control noticed Nauka’s backup radiator, which is mounted to the outside of the module, was leaking coolant at approximately 1:00 p.m. ET on October 9, the space agency…


  • The Fascinating Story Of The First Plastic Car

    The Fascinating Story Of The First Plastic Car

    In 1981, McLaren changed the car world when it debuted the MP4/1, the first Formula One car with a complete carbon fibre chassis. From then on, slowly but surely, people came to understand that a fibre-reinforced composite — plastic — was the fastest, lightest, strongest, best way to put a performance car together. Long before…