NASA Tech Briefs - September 2011 - Vol. 35 No. 9

Features

• Application Briefs

  Launch Escape System Advances Commercial Human Spaceflight

  Capacitive Pressure Sensor Enables Better Combustor Design

• Who's Who

  Dr. Lin Chambers, Project Scientist, NASA Langley Science Directorate, Hampton, VA

• Articles

  Innovation in Smart Robotics

  SENSORS Tech Forum: A “Smart” Sensors Technology Event

  Johnson Space Center

  Smart Phones in Space

  NASA Announces New Launch System

  Download the Sounds of NASA

Tech Briefs

• Bio-Medical

  Method and Apparatus for Forming Nanodroplets

  Rapid Detection of the Varicella Zoster Virus in Saliva

• Physical Sciences

  Dynamic Monitoring of Cleanroom Fallout Using an Air Particle Counter

  Fused Reality for Enhanced Flight Test Capabilities

  Enhancement to Non-Contacting Stress Measurement of Blade Vibration Frequency

  Thermography to Inspect Insulation of Large Cryogenic Tanks

  Frame-Transfer Gating Raman Spectroscopy for Time-Resolved Multiscalar Combustion Diagnostics

  Phase-Controlled Magnetic Mirror for Wavefront Correction

  In-Service Monitoring of Steam Pipe Systems at High Temperatures

  Thermal Properties of Microstrain Gauges Used for Protection of Lithium-Ion Cells of Different Designs

• Manufacturing & Prototyping

  Silicon Carbide Mounts for Fabry-Perot Interferometers

  Measuring the In-Process Figure, Final Prescription, and System Alignment of Large Optics and Segmented Mirrors Using Lidar Metrology

• Software

  Test Generator for MATLAB Simulations

  Sptrace

  Interplanetary Overlay Network Bundle Protocol Implementation

  S-Band POSIX Device Drivers for RTEMS

  STRS SpaceWire FPGA Module

  Geodetic Strain Analysis Tool

• Materials

  Fiber-Reinforced Reactive Nano-Epoxy Composites

  Iridium-Doped Ruthenium Oxide Catalyst for Oxygen Evolution

  Improved Mo-Re VPS Alloys for High-Temperature Uses

  Polymerization Initiated at the Sidewalls of Carbon Nanotubes

  Piezoelectrically Enhanced Photocathodes

  Metal-Matrix/Hollow-Ceramic-Sphere Composites

• Information Sciences

  Finding Every Root of a Broad Class of Real, Continuous Functions in a Given Interval

  Kalman Orbit Optimized Loop Tracking

  Development of Jet Noise Power Spectral Laws

• Mechanics & Machinery

  Crush Test Abuse Stand

  Force Limit System

  Active Response Gravity Offload System

  Compact, Two- Sided Structural Cold Plate Configuration

  Levitated Duct Fan (LDF) Aircraft Auxiliary Generator

  AN Fitting Reconditioning Tool

• Electronics & Computers

  UAVSAR Active Electronically Scanned Array

  Positively Verifying Mating of Previously Unverifiable Flight Connectors

  Radiation-Tolerant Intelligent Memory Stack — RTIMS

  Ultra-Low-Dropout Linear Regulator

  Excitation of a Parallel Plate Waveguide by an Array of Rectangular Waveguides

  Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) Simulator

  FPGA for Power Control of MSL Avionics

• Environment

  Data Service Provider Cost Estimation Tool

  Hybrid Power Management-Based Vehicle Architecture

Products

• P3 Series of Thermal Imagers

  Product of the Month: 3D Laser Confocal Microscope

• Briefs

  Control Program and Optical Improvements of Fresnel Microspectrometer

  Miniature Laser Magnetometer

  Low-Power, Self-Calibrated Vector Magnetometer

• Applications

  Improving Microinverter Performance in Photovoltaic Systems

• Articles

  Vibration Isolation in Optical Test Systems

• Products

  All-In-One Fluorescence Microscope

  Harsh Environment Optical Systems

  Light Pipes

  Quantum Cascade Laser Driver

  Laser Modules

  Raman Spectroscopy Spectrometer

  Wavelength Meter

  Color Sensors

  DPSS Lasers

  Laser Splicing System

  Patterned Optical Coatings

  Photoelectric Sensor

  Ten-Megapixel Camera

• Articles

  When Human-Machine Interfaces and Control Converge

  Testing Lenses for Thermal Imagers

• Applications

  Using Aspheric Optics in Complex Lens Designs

• Products

  Flat Panel Sensors

  Image Sensor

  Microscopy High-Speed Camera

  Camera and Panomorph Lens

  Camera Module

  Microscope Camera

  Robotic Camera

  Digital CCD Camera

  Infrared Camera

  Microscopy Color Camera

  Display Wall-Controller Boards

  Electron Microscope System

• Articles

  Better, Faster Sonar Development With Multiphysics Simulation

  NASA Awards 2010 Software of the Year

• Briefs

  Analysis of Microwave Radiation

  Graphical Language for Data Processing

  Analysis of Thermoelectric Phenomena

  Onboard Short Term Plan Viewer

  3D Direct Modeling: Removing Bottlenecks in Simulation

  Link Analysis in the Mission Planning Lab

  Multidisciplinary Tool for Systems Analysis of Planetary Entry, Descent, and Landing

  Wind Turbine Noise Reduction

  GLobal Integrated Design Environment

  Conceptual Model of Quantities, Units, Dimensions, and Values

  Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control Visualization Tool

  The Planning Execution Monitoring Architecture

  SSC Engineering Analysis

  Automated Cryocooler Monitor and Control System Software

  Draper Station Analysis Tool

  Common Bolted Joint Analysis Tool

  CCSDS Advanced Orbiting Systems Virtual Channel Access Service for QoS MACHETE Model

  Commercial Modular Aero-Propulsion System Simulation 40k

  Jitter Controller Software

  μShell Minimalist Shell for Xilinx Microprocessors

  Software Architecture to Support the Evolution of the ISRU RESOLVE Engineering Breadboard Unit 2 (EBU2)

  InSAR Scientific Computing Environment

  Coastal On-line Assessment and Synthesis Tool 2.0

  Software Displays Data on Active Regions of the Sun

  Generalized Software Architecture Applied to the Continuous Lunar Water Separation Process and the Lunar Greenhouse Amplifier

  Monitoring Areal Snow Cover Using NASA Satellite Imagery

  Computer-Aided Parallelizer and Optimizer

  Bundle Security Protocol for ION

  MaROS: Information Management Service

  Mission Operations Planning and Scheduling System (MOPSS)

  Global Precipitation Mission Visualization Tool

  Thermal Protection System Imagery Inspection Management System —TIIMS

  Adaptation of G-TAG Software for Validating Touch-and-Go Comet Surface Sampling Design Methodology

  Visual PEF Reader — VIPER

  MatchGUI: A Graphical MATLAB-Based Tool for Automatic Image Co-Registration