Inside this issue
Features
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Application Briefs
Battery Pack Powers NASA Rocket Launch
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Who's Who
Huy Tran, Deputy Director, Aeronautics Directorate, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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Articles
NASA Announces 2012 Inventions of the Year
Tech Briefs
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Physical Sciences
Cloud Absorption Radiometer Autonomous Navigation System — CANS
Simple Laser Communications Terminal for Downlink From Earth Orbit at Rates Exceeding 10 Gb/s
Environmental Qualification of a Single- Crystal Silicon Mirror for Spaceflight Use
Multi-Pass Quadrupole Mass Analyzer
Qualification of UHF Antenna for Extreme Martian Thermal Environments
Planar Superconducting Millimeter-Wave/Terahertz Channelizing Filter
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Manufacturing & Prototyping
Phase Change Material Thermal Power Generator
The Thermal Hogan — A Means of Surviving the Lunar Night
Micromachined Active Magnetic Regenerator for Low- Temperature Magnetic Coolers
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Software
Web Application Software for Ground Operations Planning Database (GOPDb) Management
Application Program Interface for the Orion Aerodynamics Database
Ensemble Eclipse: A Process for Prefab Development Environment for the Ensemble Project
Space Operations Learning Center (SOLC) iPhone/iPad Application
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Materials
Preparation of a Bimetal Using Mechanical Alloying for Environmental or Industrial Use
Phase Change Material for Temperature Control of Imager or Sounder on GOES Type Satellites in GEO
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Information Sciences
Software Method for Computed Tomography Cylinder Data Unwrapping, Re-slicing, and Analysis
Discrete Data Qualification System and Method Comprising Noise Series Fault Detection
Modeling the Behavior of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane within a Fuel Cell
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Mechanics & Machinery
Dual-Compartment Inflatable Suitlock
Piezoelectrically Initiated Pyrotechnic Igniter
Folding Elastic Thermal Surface — FETS
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Electronics & Computers
Compact Radar Transceiver With Included Calibration
Software Defined Radio With Parallelized Software Architecture
Products
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Briefs
Planetary Data Systems (PDS) Imaging Node Atlas II
Automatic Calibration of an Airborne Imaging System to an Inertial Navigation Unit
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Articles
Flexible’ Machine Vision: Sensors, Lenses, and Software
Pixel-Scale Coated Sensors Bring Multispectral Imaging to New Users
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Products
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Products