• → European Space Agency

      • Space for Europe
      • Space News
      • Space in Images
      • Space in Videos

    • About Us

      • Welcome to ESA
      • DG's News and Views
      • For Member State Delegations
      • Business with ESA
      • ESA Exhibitions
      • ESA Publications
      • Careers at ESA

    • Our Activities

      • Space News
      • Observing the Earth
      • Human Spaceflight
      • Launchers
      • Navigation
      • Space Science
      • Space Engineering
      • Operations
      • Technology
      • Telecommunications & Integrated Applications

    • For Public

    • For Media

    • For Educators

    • For Kids

    • ESA

    • Space in Images

    ESA > Space in Images > 2010 > 12 > UHMWPE

    Free Search (10891 images)

    • Recently Added
    • Advanced Search

    UHMWPE

    UHMWPE fibres
    Views: 1
    Rating: 0.00/5 (0 votes cast)

    Rate this Image

    • Currently 0 out of 5 Stars.
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

    Thank you for rating!

    You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once!

    Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating!

    Share this Image

    Post to Facebook Post to MySpace Post to Delicious Post to Digg Post to Twitter

    Details

    Open/Close
    • Title UHMWPE
    • Released 17/12/2010 10:47 am
    • Description

      Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene’ (UHMWPE) are fibres
      that are twice as strong as Kevlar, and 10–100 times stronger than steel.


    TAGS

    Open/Close
    • Click on the tags to find the matching images.

    TAGS

    Open/Close

    Details

    Open/Close

    RELATED IMAGES

    • The Foton LOcated YES2 Deployer (FLOYD) sub-system, with the Dyneema tether visible
      Released: 05/09/2007
      Rating
    • St Petersburg, 1 March 2003
      St Petersburg - ASAR, 1 March 2003
      Released: 01/03/2003
      Rating

    Connect with us

    • RSS
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Flickr
    • Google Buzz
    • Facebook
    • Livestream
    • Subscribe
    • App Store
    • LATEST ARTICLES
    • · Proba-V opens its eyes
    • · First new Galileo satellite arri…
    • · Next destination: space
    • · Leak repaired on International S…
    • · After Chelyabinsk: European expe…

    • FAQ

    • Jobs at ESA

    • Site Map

    • Contacts

    • Terms and conditions