Technicians from Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Washington, position the layers of the diaphragm for the Orion stage adapter. The adapter will join the Orion spacecraft to the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) of the Space Launch System, NASA’s new rocket for the journey to Mars…
MOJAVE, Calif. — In the high Mojave Desert, the airframe of Paul Allen’s giant, mysterious plane for carrying rockets into space is approaching completion.
Another major hardware component for Boeing’s second Starliner spacecraft recently arrived at the company’s assembly facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The upper dome – basically one half of the Starliner pressure vessel – arrived at the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, closely following the arrival of the lower dome and docking...
When you work on projects like NASA’s Space Launch System and deep-space radio telescopes, the opportunity for accolades and large revenues can be great. However, due to the massive scale and demanding tolerances of such projects, the opportunity to have your lunch eaten by wasteful processes is also eminent. Janicki Industries is one company that...
CW guest columinst Collin Petersen (Janicki Industries, Sedro-Woolley, WA, US)suggests the use of more traditional analysis methods, where it is sensible to do so, making your finite element analysis (FEA) significantly simpler in the process.
Please tell us about Janicki Industries and provide some background history on the company. Janicki Industries is a privately owned engineering and manufacturing company that specializes in large precision tooling, parts, and prototypes utilizing composites and metals. We have 425,000 square feet of fabrication floor space sitting on 116 acres. There are currently 710 employees,...
Governor Jay Inslee breaks ground with a composite shovel made by Janicki Industries from recycled composite waste.
July 1, 2015, Sedro-Woolley, WA Janicki Industries (Janicki) has opened a new engineering office in Everett, WA. The primary mission of the new office is to support the aerospace industry with special emphasis on turnkey solutions for carbon fiber parts and production tooling. This new office is located in the heart of the aerospace community...
There are two types of telescopes commonly used to explore the universe. Optical telescopes, such as Hubble and James Webb, rely on visible light emitted from the stars, planets and other bodies in space and produce photographic images.
Better water equals better fish. That’s the thinking behind a 24-meter diameter fish farming system developed by AgriMarine Holdings, a company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that specializes in fish farming and developing sustainable aquaculture technologies.
The historic “first weld” of the Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) Orion is set to take place on May 1 at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. Building on the experience of the Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) Orion, this new spacecraft will be constructed for a major test flight on the maiden mission...
At the heart of innovation lies the search for improvement — a better, faster, more efficient way. A less expensive way. In 1993, Peter Janicki, an engineer, and Founder and CEO of Janicki Machine Design answered innovation’s call and revolutionized composites fabrication for the marine manufacturing industry.