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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...
Application Briefs: Imaging
The Kettering University Crash Safety Center (Flint, MI) conducts vehicle subsystem tests using a pneumatic deceleration sled. The research and testing includes frontal, rear, or side impact...
Application Briefs: Medical
Forest City Gear of Roscoe, IL, is a turnkey gear manufacturer, responsible to their customers for literally every facet of gear manufacturing, including prototyping, testing, production, finishing,...
Application Briefs: Medical
Ferno Aquatic Therapy, Wilmington, OH, designs and manufactures canine and equine underwater treadmill equipment used by veterinarians to provide aquatic therapy, rehabilitation, and...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
To achieve small size, low power consumption and fast time to market requirements, embedded systems designers often look to chipsets found in cell phone handsets or mobile internet...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Ultrashort pulse (USP), or “ultrafast,” lasers emit extremely brief pulses of light, generally with duration of a picosecond (10-12 seconds) or less. The pulses...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Fine-grained alumina ceramic charge detector Insaco Quakertown, PA 215-536-3500 www.insaco.com
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into high elliptical orbit in 1998....
Application Briefs: Communications
Voice-over-IP communications system Quintron Santa Maria, CA 805-928-4343 www.quintron.com
Quintron was selected by NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) to supply a new...
Application Briefs: Communications
Communications systems and support equipment L-3 Communications Corp. Communications Systems West Salt Lake City, UT 801-594-2000 www.l-3com.com/csw/
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
PT-1880 handheld electronic labeler Brother International Bridgewater, NJ 908-704-1700 www.brother-usa.com
In October 2007, the crew of NASA’s International...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Off-highway tractors slog through mud, muck, and other rough terrain on a daily basis. Achieving high reliability and performance in spite of these...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
There’s a science to testing metal structures for rigidity and performance under stress. The development of new testing methodologies is continuing at a fast pace, aided by...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Heidenhain Encoders Help TRW Machine Ford SUV Parts
TRW has been making parts for the automotive industry for many years, but when Ford Automotive considered giving them the contract to manufacture the rear toe-links for their Navigator and Expedition SUVs, their traditional lathes were considered inadequate for the task. The solution was to...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Keeping one step ahead of our adversaries is top priority for security forces with terrorist threats growing daily around the world. Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The quest to bring lockstep efficiency to labor intensive factory production at first relied on mechanical ingenuity. Over time, as reliable and cost-effective microprocessor...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
SGI® Altix® ICE systemSilicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI)Sunnyvale, CA800-800-7441www.sgi.com
SGI has supplied NASA's Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Radiation Detection Hardware Part of Living With a Star Experiment
Space dosimeter card Space Micro Inc. San Diego, CA 858-332-0700 www.spacemicro.com
Space Micro’s space dosimeter card has been successfully integrated at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) into the Living with a Star (LWS), Space Environments Testbed (SET)...
Application Briefs: Imaging
A focal plane array designed for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle has helped a scientist see farther into the infrared spectrum.
National Institutes...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
When a leading manufacturer of CNC optical manufacturing technology needed ultra-accurate and stable positioning for a new system to measure conformal optics, it turned to...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Supplying parts to the world’s leading automotive companies leaves no room for error. That’s why Miniature Precision Components Inc. (MPC) uses three vision sensors to error-proof the...
Application Briefs: Communications
Telemetry, tracking, and command services ITT Corporation White Plains, NY 914-641-2000 www.itt.com
ITT Corporation has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Surface and roundness measurement systems Taylor Hobson West Chicago, IL 630-621-3099 www.taylor-hobson.com
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama is using the...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Echo Hill Automation Inc., a Beamsville, Ontario, Canada company founded by mechanical engineers and brothers Dan and Harry Schellenberg, has grown from a small two-man operation to...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Although a few industrial backplane architectures are already geared for rugged Mil/Aero applications, some design considerations are often required when designing rugged COTS products.
What is...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) products that incorporate LEDs pose many measurement challenges compared with other lighting elements, such as traditional tungsten...
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Compact PCI (cPCI) ConnectorsHypertronics CorporationHudson, MA978-568-0451www.hypertronics.com
Hypertronics’ space-grade Compact PCI (cPCI) connectors were selected by...
Application Briefs: Imaging
AgileMesh/Firetide surveillance systemAgileMeshDallas, TX972-231-2122www.agilemesh.com
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center now protects several of its highly specialized research aircraft at...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Just a few years ago, the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in most aerospace companies was restricted to pure research or troubleshooting problems with existing designs. But in the past...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Just a few years ago, the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in most aerospace companies was restricted to pure research or troubleshooting problems with existing designs. But in the past...
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