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White Papers: Aerospace
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Space Data Recorder Trends and Future Technology

Heavy-lift orbital launch vehicles such as Starship and emerging mega constellations are driving the need to collect and process large amounts of data. Vince Pribble, product manager at...

White Papers: Electronics & Computers
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Maximizing Network Efficiency with our High-Performing OSFP Connectors

In this whitepaper, we’ll break down and understand OSFP connectors, their features, benefits, and specifications. Octal Small Form-factor Pluggable (OSFP) is a...

Blog: Power
A team at Cornell University created a new lithium battery that can charge in under five minutes — faster than any such battery on the market — while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging.
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Quiz: Unmanned Systems
Development of new Counter UAS technologies is expanding across the global Aerospace and Defense industry. Test your knowledge of counter UAS technology with this quiz.
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

BB-8 of Star Wars fame is known for its adorable beeps, dome-shaped head, and spherical body. But fighting alongside the Resistance is just one of its many talents. As this spherical robot...

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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Justin Werfel, Senior Research Fellow in Robotics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), is leading a team tasked with...

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INSIDER: Motion Control

The lungs are one of the most difficult organs for physicians to navigate. They have a dense network of blood vessels, bronchi, and other critical anatomical structures that makes...

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White Papers: IoMT
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Unlock the Potential of Your Healthcare App With Our Comprehensive Tech Stack Guide

A well-chosen tech stack lays the foundation for your healthcare app’s functionality, scalability, and future growth. It plays a crucial role in shaping...

Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
The technology can hide the approach of an existing car, create a phantom car where none exists, or even trick the radar into thinking a real car has quickly deviated from its actual course. Plus, it can do these things in the blink of an eye without having any prior knowledge about the specific settings.
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White Papers: Automotive
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Performance Materials: An Underlying Solution for Complex Electrification Design Requirements

This paper addresses the inherent design considerations impacting EV and hybrid applications. Design engineers must address the voltage, current,...

NASA Spinoff: Design
Additive manufacturing is allowing NASA to deliver payload services and launch services at a better price point.
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White Papers: Motion Control
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Top 3 Ways to Increase Your Positioning System’s 3D Accuracy

Discover fundamental positioning system design considerations that can be implemented to achieve micron and nanometer scale manufacturing tolerances.

5 Ws: Aerospace
A light sail developed by Cornell’s Space Systems Design Studio (SSDS) could one day propel small spacecraft through interstellar realms.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MIT researchers say their technique, liquid metal printing (LMP), is at least 10 times faster than a comparable metal additive manufacturing process. It involves depositing molten aluminum along a predefined path into a bed of tiny glass beads.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
In the U.S., women make up 14 percent of the engineering workforce. The number of female engineers across the globe is on the rise but compared to male engineers it is still much lower.
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Articles: Aerospace
What are the challenges for women in aerospace and what more can be done to increase the number of women in the STEM workforce? Tech Briefs interviewed Audrey Schaffer, Vice President of Strategy and Policy, Slingshot Aerospace, who has made significant strides in the aerospace industry.
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Articles: Materials
Significant progress in industry, especially in manufacturing and material science, is expected to be driven by quantum computing. Using sophisticated simulations and optimization techniques, the technology promises to accelerate the discovery of new substances and improve production procedures.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Monitoring the success of surgery on blood vessels is challenging, as the first sign of trouble often comes too late. A new device could make it easier for doctors to monitor the success of blood vessel surgery.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Northrop Grumman Corporation is developing AN/APG-85, an advanced Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for the F-35 Lightning II.
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Briefs: Power
A Sustainable Engine with Reduced Assembly Costs
Boom Supersonic, the company building supersonic planes, is developing Symphony, a new propulsion system designed and optimized for its Overture supersonic airliner.
Briefs: Manned Systems
Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Sidus Space developed a novel interlocking paver system enabling the robotic construction of high-stability vertical takeoff and landing pads.
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Briefs: Motion Control
A technique enables manufacturing of minuscule robots by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Inventors at the NASA Langley Research Center have developed a novel method to model and ingest point-wise process data to evaluate an additive manufacturing build and its file for issues by highlighting potential anomalies or other areas where the build may have issues with fusion of the material.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
By using artificial intelligence, researchers are developing a system that can automatically identify buildings after disasters and make an initial determination of whether they are damaged and how serious that damage might be.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
See the product of the month: 2Pi Optics' high-resolution fisheye sensor based on optical metalens technology.
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Products: Design
See the products of the year: The Talaria TWO Module Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi optimized solution for cloud-connected IP video IoT devices by InnoPhase IoT; Hexagon's Elements, simulation software to better understand the increasingly complex behavior of systems in modern products; and Nexa3D's highest throughput additive production system, the QLS 820.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
See the products of tomorrow, including: a new wireless smart textile technology that can boost hand mobility of stroke patients, a metal-free magnetic gel, and a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt.
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