Fiber-Reinforced Plastics/Polymers (FRPs) are widely used in the astronautic industry as the material of spacecrafts’ structural, thermal control, and satellite payload system. Ultrafast laser processing is a non-contact, versatile or efficient tool for reduced, equal, or additive material processing, which has very recently been put into use for manufacturing spacecrafts made of fiber-reinforced polymer composites. We analyzed the fitness between ultrafast laser manufacturing technology and astronautic manufacturing demand. Special attention was paid on the progress related to ultrafast laser processing of fiber-reinforced polymers used in spacecrafts, such as cutting, milling, laser marking and surface roughening for preparation of high adhesion coatings, with carbon- FRP and glass-FRP involved. Typical machining results via traditional manufacturing techniques were demonstrated for comparisons. The study may shed light on the practical application of ultrafast laser processing of FRP products used in the astronautic industries.
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