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NASA’s Science Mission Directorate’s Sensor, Detectors, and Instrument Technology Needs

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) engages the Nation’s science community, sponsors scientific research, and develops and deploys satellites and probes in collaboration with NASA’s partners around the world to answer fundamental questions requiring the view from and into space. The ...

>> Podcasts

Exclusive Interview With the Director of Westinghouse

Westinghouse is a fascinating new feature-length documentary about the life and times of George Westinghouse, one of America's greatest inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrialists. Listen to our interview with the writer and director, Mark Bussler, as he discusses this "forgotten giant" -- his amazing legacy, greatest ...

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NASA Satellite Data Interpreted for Medical and Public Health Use

Laboratory for Global Health Observation
University of Alabama at Birmingham, School
of Public Health
Birmingham, AL
205-934-4993
www.regardsstudy.org

A partnership between NASA’s National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) and the School of Public Health at the ...

>> White Paper

NEiNastran V9.1 64-bit (64-bit Solver)

Sponsored By:

Dedicated to helping you design better products in a digital world... your guide to the latest tools & techniques for digital prototyping, simulation, and analysis of the real-world performance of your ideas.

Visit the Digital Design Center

>> Who's Who

Drew Feustel, Astronaut, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Astronaut Drew Feustel is scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery when it makes what is projected to be the final manned mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Feustel will perform three of the five spacewalks planned for that mission.

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Shaft-Angle Sensor Based on Tunnel-Diode Oscillator

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Advantages would include relative simplicity and low-temperature capability.

A proposed brushless shaft-angle sensor for use in extreme cold would offer significant advantages over prior such sensors:

It would be capable of operating in extreme cold; and
Its electronic circuitry would be simpler ...

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