{"id":31706,"date":"2018-10-29T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31706"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:12:46","slug":"nasa-keen-on-india-made-technology-for-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-keen-on-india-made-technology-for-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA keen on India-made technology for spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nasa-keen-on-india-made-technology-for-spacecraft\/article22545162.ece\"><strong>NASA keen on India-made technology for spacecraft<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new thermal spray coating technology used for gas turbine engine in spacecraft developed by a Rajasthan-based researcher has caught the attention of a NASA scientist, an official said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Satish Tailor\u2019s thermal spray coating useful for gas turbine engine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expressing his interest in the research, James L. Smialek, a scientist from NASA wrote to Dr. Satish Tailor after it was published in the journal\u00a0<em>Ceramics International<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Thermal Spray Bulletin<\/em>, said S.C. Modi, the chairman of a Jodhpur-based Metallizing Equipment Company (MEC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost-effective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While working at MEC as a chief scientist, Research and Development, Dr. Tailor developed the controlled segmented Yttria-Stabilised Zirconia (YSZ)-Plasma sprayed coating technology, which according to him could reduce the thermal spray coating cost by almost 50%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Developing vertical cracks beneficial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn simple language, vertical cracks (segmentation) in the coating are beneficial for gas turbine engine application used in spacecraft,\u201d Dr. Tailor said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Present process expensive and uncontrollable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, researchers are developing such cracks through very expensive processes (in several crore) and cracks are generated during the coating deposition process, and crack generation is not controllable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian scientists impressed too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists working at the country\u2019s leading research organisations \u2014 the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) \u2014 are equally impressed with the new technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An inexpensive solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The chief scientist at the CSIR headquarters in New Delhi, said that the outcome of the reported R&amp;D presented an inexpensive solution for superior survival of current YSZ thermal barrier coatings produced by atmospheric plasma sprayed (APS) technique, and had a potential of wider industrial\/strategic acceptability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA keen on India-made technology for spacecraft Context A new thermal spray coating technology used for gas turbine engine in spacecraft developed by a Rajasthan-based researcher has caught the attention of a NASA scientist, an official said. Satish Tailor\u2019s thermal spray coating useful for gas turbine engine Expressing his interest in the research, James L.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-keen-on-india-made-technology-for-spacecraft\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA keen on India-made technology for spacecraft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704777494},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}