Inside this issue
Features
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Application Briefs
Simulation Software is Key to Orion’s Heat-Shield Success
Cryogenic Seal for Space Launch System Handles Extreme Pressure Conditions
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Articles
NASA-Developed Platform Integrates Sensors with Smartphones
Tech Briefs 40th Anniversary: Executive Perspectives
Executive Perspectives: Data Acquisition & Sensing
Executive Perspectives: Software
Executive Perspectives: Software
Executive Perspectives: Internet of Things
Executive Perspectives: Test & Measurement
Executive Perspectives: Robotics
Executive Perspectives: Software
Tech Briefs
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Machinery & Automation
Autonomous Flight Termination System Reference Design Hardware
RoboSimian: Software Algorithms for a Mobile Manipulation Quadruped Robot
Robot Task Commander with Extensible Programming Environment
Multi-Spacecraft Autonomous Positioning System/Network-Based Navigation
Heading Versus Tilt Chart for Assessing HGA Occlusion and Flop Risk in MSL Operations
Rapid Forest Triage by Sub-Canopy Micro Air Vehicles
Insertable, Miniature, In-Vivo Surgical Robot with Embedded Control
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Mechanics & Machinery
Pyrotechnically Actuated Gas Generator Using Aqueous Methanol
Deployable Perimeter Truss with Blade Reel Deployment Mechanism
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Electronics & Computers
CMOS-Compatible Ohmic Contact RF MEMS Switch
Miller-Jogging for Synthesizer Lock Algorithm Extension
Deployable Antenna Circuit Board Material Design and Fabrication Process
Recurring Anomaly Detection System (ReADS)
Method for Automatic Optimization of Yaw Maneuvers for Orbiting Space Vehicles
Architecture Framework for Fault Management Assessment and Design
Spacecraft Parameter Database Tool
Eliminating the Need for Payload-Specific Coupled Loads Analyses Without Mission Risk
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Aerospace
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Integration for Shock Noise (RISN)
Regeneratively Cooled Porous Media Jacket
Multi-Pulse Motor (MPM) Designed for Use with Electric Solid Propellants
Daily Mesoscale Sea Surface Salinity from Evaporation and Precipitation
Software for Inferring the Aerosol Water and Soot Fractions from Remote Sensing Measurements
Algae Photobioreactor Using Floating Enclosures With Semi-Permeable Membranes
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Communications
Mini-Stamp as a Micro-Display for At-a-Glance Subsystem Information for DSN Links
Command and Data Handling for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
Products
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Briefs
Continental-Scale Mapping of Adélie Penguin Colonies from Landsat Imagery
Photogrammetric-Based Pose Initialization and Propagation for Inertial Navigation Systems
Multi-Channel Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Combustion Product Monitoring
Disturbance-Free, High-Resolution Imaging from Space
Hollow-Core Fiber Lamp for Mercury Ion Clocks and Micro-Plasma Studies
3D Imaging Technology and System
Virtual Windows to Supplement Conventional Spacecraft Windows
SCaN Optical Link Assessment Tool Version 2