CFRP Engineering
Perigee Aerospace
Perigee Aerospace offers lightweight and durable carbon composite structures, from materials and design to production, enabling higher payloads and lower thermal loss for launch vehicles.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 36 kg
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Diameter standard 1
- 0.76 m
- Diameter standard 2
- 1.6 m
- Diameter customizable
- 0.3 to 2.0 m
- Length standard 1
- 1.8 m
- Length standard 2
- 1.8 m
- Length customizable
- 0.8 to 2.6 m
- Dry mass standard 1
- 36 kg
- Dry mass standard 2
- 75 kg
- Material
- Carbon Composite Type
- Maximum expected operating pressure (meop) standard 1
- 18 barg
- Maximum expected operating pressure (meop) standard 2
- 5 barg
- Operating temperature
- -196 °C ~ +50 °C
About
Perigee Aerospace specializes in CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) engineering, providing lightweight and durable carbon composite structures. Their expertise covers the entire process from materials selection and design to production. They offer lightweight type 5 CFRP tanks featuring patented technologies, which contribute to higher payloads, reduced thermal loss, and flexible in-house production capabilities for launch vehicles. With comprehensive in-house capabilities in composite design, manufacturing, and testing, Perigee delivers advanced composite structures suitable for a wide range of aerospace applications. These high-performance tanks can achieve a 30% payload increase compared to aluminum tanks, making them an optimal choice for small launch vehicles and other aerospace applications. Perigee’s end-to-end in-house capability ensures complete design, development, production, and testing, allowing for flexible adaptation to customer needs and timelines. The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified and utilizes patented technologies, already applied to Blue Whale systems.
Documentation
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