NASA Tech Briefs - June 2016 - Vol. 40 No. 6

Features

• Articles

  Products of Tomorrow: June 2016

  Advances in Coating Technology Take Shape at NASA Goddard

  Recycling Technology Converts Plastic Waste to Energy

• Who's Who

  Joe Munchak, Research Meteorologist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

• Application Briefs

  Control Solutions Synchronize Operation of Space Launch System Heavy Transporters

Tech Briefs

• Mechanics & Machinery

  Launch Tie-Down and Release Mechanism for CubeSat Spacecraft

  Ratcheting Threaded Tapered Collet for use in Planetary Sample Caching Systems

  Planetary Ice Mining by Down-Hole Energy Injection

• Materials

  Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System

  Hierarchical Support for Nanocatalysts

  Control of Carbon Nanotube Density and Tower Height in an Array

  In-Situ Chemical Analysis of Material Surfaces

• Software

  Predicting Magnetospheric Relativistic >1 MeV Electrons

  Optimal Prioritized Actuator Allocation

  Terrain Model Registration

  Error Budget for Pointing at Surface Features From Close Range

  Traceable Automation with Remote Display and Interruptible Scheduler Version 1.04.0

  Java Pathfinder (JPF) Core System

  Single Doppler Retrieval Toolkit (SingleDop)

  Computing Efficient Onboard Analysis and Re-Scheduling

  libSPRITE

  Tool for Rapid Analysis of Monte Carlo (TRAM) Simulation Data

  Object-Oriented FITS File Interface for MATLAB

  Space Station Research Explorer

• Machinery & Automation

  Limboid Reconfigurable Robots for In-Space Assembly

  Cam Hand

• Physical Sciences

  Iodine-Compatible Hall Effect Thruster

• Test & Measurement

  Laser Architecture and Atomic Filter for Daytime Measurements Using Spaceborne Sodium Lidar

  Rangefinder for Measuring Volume of Cryogenic or Caustic Turbulent Fluids

  Micro-Force Sensing Nanoprobe

  High-Channel-Count, High-Scan-Rate Data Acquisition System for the NASA Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel

  Fusible Alloy Thermometer

  Small-Volume Pressurized Sample Handling System

• Electronics & Computers

  Integrated Circuit for Radio Astronomy Correlators Supporting Large Arrays of Antennas

  Fabrication of Silicon-Leg Isolated Bi-Cr Thermopiles

  Current Source Logic Gate

  Design of Double Layer Rectenna Array for Fault Isolation of Schottky Diode in Operation Beyond V-Band Frequencies

• Aerospace

  Generation-2 Lean Direction Injection System

• Propulsion

  Testing Aircraft Electric Propulsion Systems on NASA’s Modular Stand

  Burnable-Poison-Operated Reactor Using Gadolinium Loaded Alloy

Products

• Products

  Product of the Month

  Product of the Month: June 2016

  Handheld Meters for Test Kits

  Sampling Oscilloscopes

  Voltage/Current Source

  Power Meters

  Leak Detector

  Power Analyzer

  Mechatronics Platform

  Dual-Channel Transceiver

  EMI-Shielded Vents and Filters

• Briefs

  Airborne Elastic Backscatter and Raman Polychromator for Ash Detection

  Intelligent Displacement Sensor Deployment Using MTConnect Protocol over Ethernet

  Active Remote-Sensing Radiometer

• Articles

  Making Sense from Sensors: How to Build a Sensor Fusion Engine

  NASA Proxy Maps Reveal Earthquake Damage

  Inertial Sensors Get in the Driver’s Seat

• Applications

  Vibration Sensors Add New Touch to Prosthetics

• Products

  Door Protection System

  Microcontrollers

  Multimeter

  Pyrometer

  Sensor ICs

  IC and Module

  Touchless Variable Gap Sensor

  Sensor Kits

  Spectroradiometer

  Proximity Sensor

  Current Sensors

  Three-Axis Magnetic Sensor

  Pressure Sensors

  Night-Vision Imaging

  Vision Sensors

  Surface Profiling Sensors

  Magnetic Position Sensors

  Surface Sensors

  Wireless Switches

• Articles

  Simplified Machine Design Approach for Optimal Servomotor Control

• Applications

  Anti-Creep Mechanism Enables Ultra-Precise Motor Table Positioning

• Products

  Motor Drive

  Positioners

  Linear Slide

  Angle Sensors

  Hexapod

  Level Indicator

  Machine Controller