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Application Briefs: Motion Control
Simulated Models Test Design of Space Shuttles and Rocket Engines
Finite element modeling and analysis Dynamic Concepts Huntsville, AL 256-922-9888 www.dynamic-concepts.com
NASA tasked Dynamic Concepts (DCI) with assessing the structural dynamics of the rollout process, whereby the space shuttle orbiter, external tank, and solid rocket booster...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The field of optical microscopy experienced significant gains in resolution and speed following the introduction of lasers. Unfortunately, these gains came at the expense of sample degradation...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The colonel has a problem. He has eight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying over the outskirts of Baghdad, looking for potential insurgent activity. Are those people he sees moving through...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
For years, laser manufacturers have promised the ability to produce very high-power, cost-effective lasers that are stable outside of a laboratory environment. Recent requirements in aerospace and...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk Formation, Inc. Moorestown, NJ 856-234-5020 www.formation.com
Formation’s ToughDisk® 3500 SATA Rugged Hard Disk has been selected by...
Application Briefs: Software
Adept document management software Synergis Software Quakertown, PA 800-836-5440 www.synergis-adept.com
NASA Ames Research Center’s Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels (UPWT) in Mountain...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Belden Inc., a manufacturer of universal joints, has developed a miniaturized universal joint for a surgical tool developed by Tuebingen Scientific Medical GmbH for minimally invasive surgical...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Arcoma, one of the world’s leading providers of automatic x-ray equipment, faced the challenge of redesigning one its flagship products, the Arcoma mobile imaging table, because new...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
What good is a $100,000 ultra-precision inverted microscope if it can’t hold focus? That’s the problem facing researchers involved in an increasing number of genetic experiments.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The embedded computing industry is being inundated with changes to storage products driven by technological advancements, market forces and environmental concerns. The precipitous drop in solid-state flash drive (SSD)...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Instrument unit avionics The Boeing Company Chicago, IL 312-544-2000 www.boeing.com
The Boeing Company has been awarded a NASA contract valued at approximately $265...
Application Briefs: Transportation
IS-1200 inertial-optical motion tracker InterSense Bedford, MA 781-541-6330 www.intersense.com
NASA’s Langley Research Center has awarded InterSense a follow-on...
Application Briefs: Imaging
For more than 40 years, Italray srl (Florence, Italy) has manufactured radiological equipment for traditional and digital medical applications, as well as computer-assisted systems...
Application Briefs: Imaging
The discovery of X-rays was first reported at the end of 1895 when Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen was conducting experiments with electrostatic charges and cathode ray tubes. In 2008, we have such...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Ares I First Stage Avionics Subsystem Line-Replaceable Units L-3 Communications, Cincinnati Electronics Mason, OH 513-573-6505 www.L-3Com.com/ce
L-3...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
SGI InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility SGI Sunnyvale, CA 650-933-7777 www.sgi.com
NASA researchers produce vast amounts of scientific and engineering data in spacecraft design,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Transport networks have witnessed two significant trends over the past half-decade or so. The first has been an explosion in the bandwidth these networks can support and the distances over which...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Custom inserts solve reel torque problems
As a leading supplier of fishing equipment and accessories, Penn Fishing Tackle Manufacturing Co. provides customers with high-quality, competitively priced, cutting edge products that meet the highest possible industry standards.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
ABCO Automation, Greensboro, NC, has consistently decreased costs and increased profits by looking for new ways to source custom components used in machine builds.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a methodology for analyzing potential problems early in the product development cycle where it is easier to take action to overcome potential issues, thereby...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Remote Voltage Sensor Quasar Federal Systems San Diego, CA 858-228-3386 www.quasarusa.com
Electrostatic charges impact the safety of both workers and...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) Actel Mountain View, CA 650-318-4200 www.actel.com
Actel’s RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are aboard...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Light beam homogenizer designs used for decades are largely based upon lenticular lens arrays that date back to the 1940s and 1950s. A more recent design is from the late 1980s that comprises a pair of...
Application Briefs: Physical Sciences
TEGAM 1949-0001 ratio transformer TEGAM Geneva, OH 440-466-6100 www.tegam.com
The EarthScope Project is an undertaking funded by the National Science Foundation in partnership with the United...
Application Briefs: Energy
Stretched Lens Array ENTECH Keller, TX 817-379-0100 www.entechsolar.com
ENTECH has been awarded a contract from NASA’s Glenn Research Center, which will support the development of an...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Onyx guided parachute designed and manufactured by Atair Aerospace (Brooklyn, NY) is an autonomous precision airdrop system. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) uses motors and planetary...
Application Briefs: Imaging
As thin-film technology advances, it’s increasingly important to monitor the film’s characteristics. That’s because eliminating irregularities in thin films — used...
Application Briefs: Imaging
New MP3 players from a global electronics manufacturer like Sony are destined for a demanding consumer market and cannot be compromised in any way. In Malaysia, the company sought...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A presidential election... the continuance or end of deploying troops in Iraq...Phoenix spacecraft landing on Mars...2008 could be an exciting year, so let's take a moment to look at a few...
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