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Application Briefs: Aerospace
Aircraft and airborne system development and modification L-3 Communications Integrated Systems Waco, TX 254-799-5533 www.l-3com.com/is/
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
KUKA Flexible Production Systems is a leading producer of production systems for car bodies and chassis. When KUKA decided to become a Tier I supplier of automobile bodies to Chrysler, they...
Application Briefs: Software
NASA’s Ares V space launch vehicle makes significant use of composites, and during flight, the shroud of the Ares V will separate into four petals to release the Lunar Lander. In the...
Application Briefs: Energy
International Battery is building a battery prototype for NASA that will provide backup power in support of the space shuttle program. NASA is interested in the company’s largeformat,...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Process Photonics (Ottawa, ON, Canada) builds processing systems for the PCB, electronics assembly, and medical device markets. Their ProVisionTM series is a solution that uses...
Application Briefs: Software
Turbines housed in aircraft engines are subject to pretty tough conditions. They must perform at speeds of 30,000rpm in temperatures greater than 800 °C for hours at a time.
Application Briefs: Software
FiberSIM® composites engineering software Vistagy Waltham, MA 781-250-6800 www.vistagy.com
When NASA originally considered employing composites in manned spacecraft, it had to...
Application Briefs: Imaging
TriDAR vision system Neptec Design Group Ottawa, ON, Canada 613-599-7602 www.neptec.com
NASA is conducting a Detailed Test Objective (DTO) with Neptec’s TriDAR vision...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For 3D viewing to be convenient on small, portable devices, it must be autostereoscopic, thus eliminating the requirement for 3D “glasses.” The display devices must also provide 2D and 3D...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Designers of medical equipment using lasers must be careful in their selection of optical components in order to ensure safe and reliable operation. The high power density and narrow wavelength range of lasers...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Canted-Coil™ springs Bal Seal Engineering Foothill Ranch, CA 949-460-2100 www.balseal.com
When astronauts embarked on the latest mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, Bal Seal Engineering’s...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Stat-X fire suppression system Fireaway LLC Minnetonka, MN 952-935-9745 http://statx.com
When NASA Kennedy Space Center’s fire safety experts decided to replace the fire suppression...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Stereology, a tool that became popular in the late ‘90s, is used to quantify properties of 3D objects from 2D sections through an object (such as microscope slides of brain tissue)....
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Classic Metal Finishing, based in Jackson, Mich., supplies components for the aerospace, motorcycle, racing, and medical industries. The plant was purchased in February, 2008 by Classic...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
AB Precision (ABP) prefers to call its Guardian a vehicle (as in MROV - Miniature Remotely Operated Vehicle) rather than a robot. Names aside, the UK-based engineering company’s quadtracked,...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
With more embedded systems using SSDs in critical applications, designers are now asking the question, “How long will this SSD last in my application?” To help answer this pressing...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Diverse types of lasers, such as nanosecond, pulsed, and excimer, have been considered for various applications in the photovoltaic industry, including edge isolation, edge deletion, drilling for back...
Application Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Micro-Molded IMLI Matrix part Phillips Plastics Corp. Prescott, WI 877-508-0252phillipsplastics.com
To achieve a high level of energy density as well as green...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
C-mount Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses Schneider Optics Van Nuys, CA 818-766-3715www.schneideroptics.com
Schneider Optics’ C-mount Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses were selected by NASA to...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Assembly Machines Produce Optics for NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope
Cylindrical optics module assembly machines ABTech Swanzey, NH 603-358-6431 www.abtechmfg.com
ABTech has completed the first of two cylindrical optics module assembly machines for Columbia University’s Nevis Astrophysics Laboratory. The multi-axis air bearing machine platforms are...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
CCD Imaging Sensors Aid Hubble in Exploring the Universe
Charge coupled device (CCD) imaging sensors e2v Chelmsford, UK 44 (0)1245 493493 www.e2v.com
e2v CCD imaging sensors were launched recently on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of a mission to upgrade and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The imaging sensors equip the Wide Field Camera 3...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
HAWE Hydraulics, Charlotte, NC, offers proportional valves and controls typically used by companies manufacturing machine tools, lifting platforms, mobile cranes,...
Application Briefs: Medical
Spiralock Fasteners Safeguard Reliability for Medical Lasers and Implants
Failure is not an option when it comes to medical equipment. From critical or sensitive devices like lasers, MRI scanners, knee joints, and implantable pacemakers to instruments as straightforward as stethoscopes, when life is at stake, medical equipment must be reliable.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A lot has been written about Moore's Law and the potential limitations of semiconductor design and manufacturing in the future. Can we really continue to double the number...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Manufacturers that design, formulate and apply coatings have struggled for years to find a rigorous and easy-to-use method that reliably measures the color and appearance of...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
FARO® Laser Tracker FARO Technologies Lake Mary, FL 800-736-0234 www.faro.com
Making its first flights to the International Space Station by the middle of the next decade, the Orion...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Spectra® T950 tape libraries Spectra Logic Federal Boulder, CO 303-449-6400 www.spectralogic.com
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, installed two Spectra® T950 tape...
Application Briefs: Medical
Quantim Coriolis mass flow controller Brooks Instrument Hatfield, PA 215-362-3527 www.brooksinstrument.com
Transporting medical fluids that are manufactured on Earth into...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
SQUIGGLE® custom rotary piezoelectric motors New Scale Technologies Victor, NY 585-924-4450 www.newscaletech.com
The Wide-Field Multi Object Spectrometer (WFMOS) is a ground-based...
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