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Application Briefs: Imaging
Optical design engineers often discuss the use of aspheres to reduce element count, but they seldom put the discussion into real-time practice, often fearing that the more complex fabrication...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets is carried out using machines that appear, at first sight, to be very simple. First, a die is filled with the correct amount...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Laser Systems Will Enable NASA Satellite to Measure Sea Ice
Flight lasers and test laserFibertekHerndon, VA703-471-7671www.fibertek.com
Managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission is scheduled to launch in 2016. The satellite will replace the original ICESat...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Heat exchanger coilsSuper Radiator CoilsChaska, MN952-556-3330superradiatorcoils.com
A 25-foot-high wall of heat exchanger coils manufactured by Super Radiator Coils will replace the...
Application Briefs: Lighting
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Regensburg, Germany
FormoLight Technologies, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Particularly compact Multi CHIPLEDs developed by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors raise the image quality in FormoLight Technologies'...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Luminus Devices, Billerica, MA
Aiptek, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Luminus Devices is powering Aiptek’s new Pocket-Cinema V50 Projector, a small projector enabling instant projection for business presentations, photo sharing,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New high definition (HD) television cameras are being integrated into industrial environments to assist in the inspection of a variety of manufactured products. HDTV technology is...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Summit® X650 40-GbEswitchExtreme NetworksSanta Clara, CA408-579-2800extremenetworks.com
Some of the largest data sets in existence are related to weather research, and that data is used throughout...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Creo Direct v17 modeling design softwarePTC Corp.Needham, MA781-370-5000www.ptc.com
There are several robotic arms on the International Space Station (ISS), but the two that...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
How do you test the behavior of different soil structures in an earthquake? Obviously, large earthquakes don’t happen often, and they certainly don’t happen on cue. The solution,...
Application Briefs: Software
CodeSonar, Coverity Prevent, and Uno softwareGrammaTechIthaca, NY607-273-7340www.grammatech.com
The results of a ten-month study by 30 NASA engineers of possible electronic causes of...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based deformable mirrorBoston Micromachines Corp. (BMC)Cambridge, MA617-868-4178www.bostonmicromachines.com
Boston Micromachines was awarded a Phase 1 NASA Small...
Application Briefs: Imaging
For five years, Michael Lunoe, President of Zorg Industries, had been in need of a camera system that could identify objects and provide accurate distance from the rear of a vehicle.
Application Briefs: Software
PHX ModelCenter® softwarePhoenix IntegrationWayne, PA610-971-9603www.phoenix-int.com
Phoenix Integration’s PHX ModelCenter® software has been used by NASA to create a robust,...
Application Briefs: Imaging
FluxData FD-1665 3CCD Multispectral CameraFluxData Inc.Rochester, NY800-425-0176www.fluxdata.com
FluxData has launched a multispectral imager on a mission to the...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Machine vision technology is used extensively throughout manufacturing to improve product quality, increase productivity and reduce costs. One of the reasons for that is a machine vision system will work...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ Airbus, Toulouse, France
Honeywell's light-emitting diode (LED) wingtip navigation lighting is now standard on new production Airbus A320 Family aircraft, comprising the A318, A319, A320,...
Application Briefs: Lighting
This technology involves the use of an extensible array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a means of sensing incident light levels. The light-sensing LED array can be used to construct highly-dynamic...
Application Briefs: Lighting
Kopp Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
Incandescent lamps have been used as the primary light source in airfield lighting designs for many years. With recent environmental awareness of the general population and government...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The European Space Agency is funding e2v’s development of an image sensor for the visible instrument in the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a candidate mission for one of two...
Application Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Revit® Structure softwareGeneral Dynamics SATCOMAutodeskSan Rafael, CA415-507-5000www.autodesk.com
NASA Ames Research Center at...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
At Concordia Station in Antarctica, there is a telescope mount that has been operating for a few years. Recently, there was a new record temperature at the Dome C site: -84.6...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
In the general construction industry, many different parts are cut from sheet metal and then welded together on a large machine or vehicle. The trouble arises when the sheets are placed...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Nordson Asymtek, headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, provides automated fluid dispensing systems, which are used in the assembly and packaging of semiconductors, printed circuit boards, flat panel...
Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Beam waveguide antennasGeneral Dynamics SATCOMTechnologiesNewton, NC828-464-4141www.gdsatcom.com
General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been chosen by NASA s Jet...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Single-frequency semiconductor laserRedfern Integrated Optics (RIO)Santa Clara, CA408-970-3500www.rio-inc.com
NASA has chosen Redfern Integrated Optics to further develop a single-frequency,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The operator’s paradox for the past several years has been that while there is an explosion in data traffic volumes to the tune of 45-65% yearly, the corresponding revenue growth is in the single digits at best. To...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
New Shepard rocket-propelled vehicle
Blue Origin Kent, WA 253-872-0411 www.blueorigin.com
Blue Origin has received funding from NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative to develop a...
Application Briefs: Information Technology
Enterprise application and information technology services Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) McLean, VA 703-676-4300 www.saic.com
SAIC was awarded the Enterprise...
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