BEAM will be attached to one of the nodes on the station and used to demonstrate expandable habitat technology in space.
Bigelow Aerospace of North Las Vegas, Nev., has been pursuing an ambitious project developing expandable modules after licensing technology that NASA had developed in the 1990s then abandoned.
He has been developing so-called expandable space habitats, a technology he bought from NASA a number of years ago.These habitats, which are folded up for launch and then inflated in space, were designed as interplanetary vehicles for a trip to Mars, but they are also likely to be useful general-purpose accommodation.
The Velop is essentially a home version of that technology, and is expandable up to ten units.
The program is built on cloud-based technology, scalable infrastructure expandable to other regions.
This study aimed to develop a mechanical model for designing self-expandable stents fabricated using braiding technology.
The Melody TPV brings together two existing device technologies: a balloon expandable stent and a valved bovine jugular venous conduit.
A rapid, portable, yet inexpensive and expandable computer-based system utilizing current technology has been developed from experience in the operating room.
As the core of drilling technology in the 21st century, expandable tubular technology could solve practical engineering problems including inadequate casing displacement and high-pressure formations in drilling, and it could be applied in many fields such as well workover, cementation, and well completion.
There have also been substantial improvements in endovascular technology, such as bioactive coils, expandable coils, and complex-shaped coils during the same period, which may account for some of observed increase in utilization [ 7, 16].
