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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Advanced Position Sensors to Aid NASA in Future Spaceflight
Silicon carbide-based position sensors INPROX Technology Corp. Boston, MA 617-573-5158 www.inproxtechnology.com
INPROX Technology Corp. (ITC) has entered into a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Ohio to develop advanced silicon carbide (SiC)- based...
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: Robotics, Automation & 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: Imaging
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: Robotics, Automation & 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: Robotics, Automation & 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: Motion 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...
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