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Application Briefs: Aerospace
Super pressure balloon Raven Aerostar Sioux Falls, SD 605-336-2750 www.ravenaerostar.com
A super pressure balloon (SPB) designed by Raven Aerostar, and the largest SPB ever built,...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Geostationary (GEO) satellite Space Systems/Loral (SSL) Palo Alto, CA 650-852-4000 www.sslmda.com
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has chosen Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to conduct...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Deep-sea remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) present motion control design engineers with some difficult challenges. Applications may include ROV propulsion, position thrusters, dive vanes, rudders, or...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Counterfeit parts and materials pose a serious threat to the United States defense supply chain. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012 (Section 818) laid out strict...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Tecplot 360 EX data visualization and analysis software Tecplot, Inc. Bellevue, WA 800-763-7005 www.tecplot.com
NASA chose Tecplot 360 EX for use in the design of the heat shield for...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
OmniSeal® RACO™ Spring-Energized Seals Saint-Gobain Seals Garden Grove, CA 800-544-0080 www.seals.saint-gobain.com
Saint-Gobain Seals produced a cryogenic seal...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Google's driverless car, like many autonomous vehicles in development, is packed with sensors, radars, lasers, and cameras. To lighten the load of sensing devices in self-driving autos,...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Southern Manufacturing Group (SMG) of Morrison, TN, makes automotive components and industrial valves. In 2012, the automation system for its 175-ton hydraulic forming press...
Application Briefs: Energy
As more connected devices enter the market and see wider adoption by an ever increasing number of industries, the Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly expanding.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Comet software Comet Solutions Cincinnati, OH 513-588-2773 www.cometsolutions.com
A Structural-Thermal-Optical-Performance (STOP) analysis is an interdisciplinary analysis used to...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Apex SLR ICP etch system Advanced Vacuum, a Plasma-Therm Co. Saint Petersburg, FL 800-246-2592 www.plasmatherm.com
An Advanced Vacuum inductively coupled plasma etch system...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
RoboSimian, a limbed robot developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is designed to operate in environments too dangerous or difficult for human intervention, such...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Organic Light Emitting Diode (“OLED”) lighting panels are thin planar area light sources that are naturally diffuse, low glare, high color rendering, cool to the touch, highly energy efficient and highly...
Application Briefs: Software
Energid Technologies Cambridge, MA 617-401-7090 www.energid.com
For obvious reasons, conditions on lunar and planetary surfaces can understandably be hard to duplicate...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Brimrose Corporation of America Sparks, MD 410-472-7070 www.brimrose.com
Brimrose is developing radiation detectors that can improve NASA’s ability to determine...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new technology developed by researchers from The Langevin Institute (Paris, France) enables subsurface imaging of the finger. The “internal fingerprint,” according to the...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
With the increased processing power that PCs have attained, a complex machine that used to require an expensive and dedicated hardware-based motion control...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) Stratasys Direct Manufacturing Valencia, CA 888-311-1017 www.stratasysdirect.com
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is currently leading the...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
NASA Leverages Analytical Modeling to Improve Astronaut Mission Readiness
Probabilistic modeling Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474 www.cra.com
NASA has contracted with Charles River Analytics to develop a system to measure and assess astronaut workload. The system for Cognitive Assessment and Prediction to Promote Individualized...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Thanks to a partnership between a surgeon and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a new camera system could improve minimally invasive surgeries and provide 3D endoscopic...
Application Briefs: Unmanned Systems
In an effort to improve traffic flow, driver safety, and asset management, the Michigan Department of Transportation (DOT) has installed 17 sensors on a 50-mile stretch of...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Chances are you’re familiar with HDTV. Most of us have one of these in our living rooms. In fact, according to a recent study, more than 80% of US residents probably have...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
GE Intelligent Platforms Northamptonshire, England +44 (0)1327 322821 www.geembedded.com
Two CR11 single-board computers (SBCs) from GE Energy Management’s Intelligent Platforms...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Off-Road International, a Racefab Inc. companyRusk, TX 903-683-1599 www.off-roadinternational.com
The structural panels and chassis for NASA’s latest rovers are being built and...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Custom linear guide railsNB Corporation of AmericaHanover Park, IL1-800-521-2045www.nbcorporation.com
ADC USA, Inc. (Ithaca, NY) develops and supplies high-precision motion systems and...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Unlike industrial robots for manufacturing, service robots come with their own specification requirements aimed specifically at the end user, and the most discriminating user at...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Instron (Norwood, MA) manufactures materials testing equipment and accessories that are used to test samples ranging from components for jet engines to medical syringes. The company’s...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Color provides critical information that can improve the reliability of many machine vision inspection applications and make it possible to inspect many products that cannot be inspected in...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Expansion valves are flow-restricting devices present in any refrigeration system. The valve needle remains open during steady state of operation. The size of the opening, or position of the...
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