A contributor to these failures was the type of insulation used on the plane’s wiring, blamed by some as the root cause of the issue: the space-age polymer Kapton. No matter where we are ...

[Ahmad Tabbouch] has a method that uses Kapton tape to act as a temporary solder mask on diy boards. The process involves several steps. First, three strips are place horizontally across the board ...

The shield's dimensions are 21.2m by 14.2m. Its five layers are made from kapton, a polyimide film coated with aluminium It is the size of a tennis court and next year it will go into orbit as ...