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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Endevco Corp. San Juan Capistrano, CA 949-493-8181 www.endevco.com
On August 8, 2007, three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne lifted...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
DisplayPort Technology — Heir Apparent to VGA?
For the last 20 years we have connected our monitors to our computer systems having the confidence that upon turn-on, we could surf or create with never a consideration of whether the display would operate satisfactorily. VGA (Video Graphics Adaptor) technology enabled us to do that with CRTs as well...
Application Briefs: Physical Sciences
DynaJets® and DynaSwirl® cavitating jet technologies DynaFlow Jessup, MD 301-604-3688 www.dynaflow-inc.com
Water is a critical product of any life support system. An...
Application Briefs: Physical Sciences
QE65000 spectrometer Ocean Optics Dunedin, FL 727-733-2447 www.oceanoptics.com
Scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in October of 2008, the...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
During design and manufacturing, optical systems and lenses are toleranced and tested to ensure the smallest possible performance error. Matching most optics manufacturing...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Tractair Ltd., based in Brough, UK, designs, manufactures and installs air and hydraulic brake systems for special applications. The company works closely with the design engineers of major...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Many factors have contributed to the fact that in the past five years, home elevator sales have doubled. These include the aging of the affluent baby-boom generation. In the next five years, an...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
LabVIEW FPGA National Instruments Austin, TX 888-280-7645 www.ni.com
NASA’s next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), features...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NIRSpec STM Focal Plane Detector ITT Corp. White Plains, NY 914-641-2000 www.itt.com
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled for launch in 2013 with the goal of...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Progress in developing improved semiconductor lasers with emission in the mid-IR spectral region (≈3 μm to ≈15 μm) has depended heavily on the use of nanometer-scaled structures....
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Conventional hard disk drives (HDDs) are designed to reliably operate in the hospitable physical surroundings of interior deployments, which are typically characterized by mild...
Application Briefs: Software
Presto Imaging Software Inmagic Woburn, MA 781-287-6277 www.inmagic.com
With every space shuttle mission, hundreds of individuals across NASA need to access extensive...
Application Briefs: Software
MSC Nastran and MSC Adams Enterprise Simulation Software MSC.Software Corp. Santa Ana, CA 714-540-8900 www.mscsoftware.com
NASA’s MIDEX Mission THEMIS...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Complex machines in semiconductor manufacturing often have tough performance requirements for motion control. When traditional PLCor PC-based motion controllers fail to...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Bugatti Veyron is the world’s fastest street-legal motor vehicle, a high-end passenger car that can reach speeds of more than 200 miles per hour. These high speeds...
Application Briefs: Energy
Centralized Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Lee Technologies Fairfax, VA 703-968-0300 www.leetechnologies.com
NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, MS, is NASA’s primary site for...
Application Briefs: Physical Sciences
CODE Rebreathers and SSV Lifejackets Aqua Lung Vista, CA 760- 597-5000
The High Lakes Project (HLP) is funded by a grant from the NASA Astrobiology...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Increasingly dependent on continuous video monitoring and recording, even today's more sophisticated security surveillance systems are often plagued by reliability...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
As the volume of consumer electronics increases, semiconductor fabrication plants are manufacturing larger and larger wafers to handle the demand (e.g., 300 mm substrates). The escalating...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
HANABI HVS-3800HS Multi-Bit Rate Switcher FOR-A Waltham, MA 714-867-3311 www.for-a.com
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD, manages the Hubble Space...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Isilon IQ Clustered Storage System Isilon Systems Seattle, WA 206-315-7500 www.isilon.com
NASA World Wind is an open-source, virtual globe software enabling users to zoom...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Traditionally, once they are shaped, but before they are mounted, diamonds are rated by the “4 Cs” — clarity, color, carat, and cut. Modern gemology, however, grades finished diamonds by a more...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Scheduled for completion in 2009, the National Ignition Facility Project (NIF), part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL, Livermore, CA), is a component of the National...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Automotive production plants continually face two common problems in the application of coatings: imperfect coverage and contaminants. Thermal vision systems provide a solution.
Application Briefs: Imaging
The U.S. military has employed infrared vision technology for years. But it has only been the past several years that thermal imaging, or infrared, technology has been made commonly...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Star-P interactive parallel computing platform Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) Waltham, MA 781-419-5050 www.interactivesupercomputing.com
NASA’s Optical Systems Characterization and...
Application Briefs: Software
Rational Rose Real-time visual modeling development software IBM Armonk, NY 914-766-1362 www.ibm.com/software/rational
Set to launch by 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Data-Centric Network Integration Takes Headaches Out of Avionic Upgrades
Avionics systems are becoming more powerful and more dependent upon data exchanged between instruments. These instruments and subsystems reside on a network and must share time-critical data to achieve their mission. For example, targeting systems require real-time input of...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
In today’s “micro world,” complex electrical systems, including analog and digital components, can fit on integrated circuits smaller than a fingernail. Microfluidics, a subset of...
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