MW holography application for NDT of composite materials in aerospace industry

Accidents and even catastrophes with people casualties during spacecraft launching quite often occur in different countries. They cause considerable direct material and human losses. The most well-known example is the catastrophe of Columbia spacecraft in 2003 in which all seven crew members perished. As a result, the Space Shuttle program had been suspended and then abolished a few years later. In addition, countries with high accidents rate also carry indirect losses in the form of increased premiums for the insurance of subsequent space launches, and many customers are beginning to refuse to launch their satellites on unreliable rockets. One of the means to improve reliability of the rockets is the non-destructive testing (NDT) of the manufactured products. This talk focuses on introduction of a new holographic subsurface radar technology as a NDT technique of dielectric products and materials in aerospace industry and its comparison with conventional X-ray and ultrasound methods