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Cambium, a global high-performance materials innovator delivering products at unprecedented speed, announced that its new #hightemperature material was successfully launched into space on a rocket built by University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Laboratory's (#USCRPL) Daybreak rocket mission. Launched from a site in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, Daybreak successfully reached space and was fully recovered intact after re-entry.

#Cambium delivered the custom product for this mission the rocket component known as a "#boattail", an aerodynamic shroud for the #rocketnozzle two weeks after receiving specifications, with launch occurring four weeks later. Cambium's high-temperature materials protected the space craft while also enabling #USCRPL to extend the length of its payload bay, a critical design advancement that will expand the utility of this space carrier for future scientific and research missions. This mission marks the first time a team of university students has successfully launched and recovered a rocket as a space payload provider.

"Cambium's high-temperature materials were a game changer for us, expanding technical capabilities, increasing occupational safety," said USCRPL Head of Operations Owen Dowden. "Giving students hands-on experience with advanced and novel materials like these is what our lab strives to do and we couldn't have asked for a better partnership. We look forward to working with Cambium in the future as they continuously advance and expand their product line while we push the boundaries of amateur rocketry.

USCRPL is one of the most accomplished student rocketry programs in the United States, with a track record of pushing boundaries in propulsion, structures, and systems integration. Since becoming the first collegiate team to launch a rocket to space with Traveler IV in 2019, the lab has set its sights on executing missions to carry scientific and research missions and payloads into space.

Cambium's differentiation is not any single class of advanced materials but a unique development approach, offering customers every aspect of molecular discovery, product development, certification and qualification, and rapid scalable manufacturing across the US and Europe, all under one roof.

"Daybreak was Mission Accomplished for both Cambium and USCRPL," Cambium Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer Stephan Herrera said. "The speed that this rocket's design, assembly, and completed mission came together was staggeringly fast and represents the latest proof point that we're entering a whole new industrial paradigm where hardware can go from materials design to delivery in days not years.

source : Cambium/ PR Newswire