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title: TAI News - Thermal Strap Blog and Program Updates | NASA thermal straps
description: NASA thermal straps | TAI's Thermal Strap News Page provides news on important spaceflight and terrestrial programs using our strap products, as well as updates on our new products, catalogs, and service offerings. Topics covered also include important tips on designing and ordering our strap products.
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# TAI NEWS & BLOG

Program News, Helpful Tips, and Product Updates

## [ NASA's IXPE Launches with TAI Thermal Straps Along for the Ride ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasas-ixpe-launches-with-tai-thermal-straps-along-for-the-ride)

[Tyler Link](https://www.techapps.com/blog/author/tyler-link) on  December 10, 2021

In case you missed it yesterday, Space-X launched NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite , from Cape Canaveral, FL, and TAI's Graphite Fiber Thermal Straps (GFTS®) were along for the...

[ Read Story ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasas-ixpe-launches-with-tai-thermal-straps-along-for-the-ride) 

[![Thermal Straps](https://www.techapps.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Graphite%20Thermal%20Straps%20-%20NASA%20IXPE%20Mission.jpg?width=500&name=Graphite%20Thermal%20Straps%20-%20NASA%20IXPE%20Mission.jpg) ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasas-ixpe-launches-with-tai-thermal-straps-along-for-the-ride)

## [ NASA to Live Stream OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Approach on December 3rd  | TAI's CuTS® a Part of Spaceflight History Once Again ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-to-live-stream-osiris-rex-asteroid-approach-on-december-3rd-tais-cuts-products-launch-into-history-again)

[Tyler Link](https://www.techapps.com/blog/author/tyler-link) on  November 30, 2018

*Artist Rendition of OSIRIS-REx Approach to Bennu. Photo Credit: NASA*

[ Read Story ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-to-live-stream-osiris-rex-asteroid-approach-on-december-3rd-tais-cuts-products-launch-into-history-again) 

[![](https://www.techapps.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ImagesResized/Sliders_450x300/University%20Cryogenic%20Vacuum%20Chamber%20Thermal%20Straps%20-%20450x300.jpg?width=500&name=University%20Cryogenic%20Vacuum%20Chamber%20Thermal%20Straps%20-%20450x300.jpg) ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-to-live-stream-osiris-rex-asteroid-approach-on-december-3rd-tais-cuts-products-launch-into-history-again)

## [ TAI Provides Cryocooler Thermal Strap for NASA's Psyche Asteroid Mission ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/tai-provides-cryocooler-thermal-strap-for-nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission)

[Tyler Link](https://www.techapps.com/blog/author/tyler-link) on  June 28, 2018

TAI is proud to be a supplier to JHU and NASA's Psyche Asteroid Mission. The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid...

[ Read Story ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/tai-provides-cryocooler-thermal-strap-for-nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission) 

[![Thermal Straps](https://www.techapps.com/hs-fs/hubfs/JHU%20Copper%20Thermal%20Strap.jpg?width=500&name=JHU%20Copper%20Thermal%20Strap.jpg) ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/tai-provides-cryocooler-thermal-strap-for-nasas-psyche-asteroid-mission)

## [ TAI Delivers Custom CuTS for NASA's BIRCHES Instrument on Lunar IceCube ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-birches-thermal-straps-delivered)

[Tyler Link](https://www.techapps.com/blog/author/tyler-link) on  March 15, 2018

TAI is proud to announce our copper thermal strap (CuTS) products are involved in another NASA program scheduled for launch in 2018: Lunar IceCube.

[ Read Story ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-birches-thermal-straps-delivered) 

[![NASA BIRCHES Thermal Straps](https://www.techapps.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ImagesResized/Sliders_450x300/NASA%20Heat%20Pipe%20Interface%20thermal%20Straps%20-%20450x300.jpg.png?width=500&name=NASA%20Heat%20Pipe%20Interface%20thermal%20Straps%20-%20450x300.jpg.png) ](https://www.techapps.com/blog/nasa-birches-thermal-straps-delivered)

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