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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Companies are constantly looking for ways to monitor and track the critical device information that resides in their remote assets. They also need to understand the environments in which their devices...
Products: Imaging
FANUC Robotics America, Rochester Hills, MI, has introduced the LR Mate 200iC/5H, the M-430iA/2F, and the M-710iC robots equipped with iRVision® built-in robotic vision. The LR Mate 200iC/5H is designed for small-part...
Products: Imaging
National Instruments, Austin, TX, has introduced the NI 1744, NI 1762, and NI 1764 smart cameras for embedded machine vision applications. Powered by a 533-MHz PowerPC, the 1744 cameras feature a high-resolution image sensor...
Products: Imaging
Machine Vision Software
PPT Vision, Eden Prairie, MN, has introduced IMPACTTM Software Suite Version 8.0 machine vision software. New features include the ability to drag and drop tools and controls, snap-to-grid alignment on the control panel canvas, and easy data linking between vision tools and controls. The IMPACT Vision Program Manager (VPM)...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Coded optic mask foil Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) Andover, MA 978-475-9090 www.drc.com
The High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2) satellite was launched into...
Application Briefs: Communications
System Provides Critical Communications Among Stennis Rocket Test Team Members
Subsystem Multiplexer (Sub-MUX) Quintron Systems Santa Maria, CA 805-928-4343 www.quintron.com
NASA has awarded Quintron Systems an Indefinite-Delivery- Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, and the first task order is for a command and control communications system that...
NASA Tech Needs
As NASA evolves its vision for space exploration and Earth science, greater demands are placed on advanced communications...
Products
Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, OH, has introduced the Model 3390 50- MHz arbitrary waveform/function generator, a programmable signal generator with function, pulse, and arbitrary waveform capabilities. Features include 50-MHz...
Who's Who: Aerospace
In March 2008, astronaut Garrett Reisman flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station, where he spent 95 days living and working in space. After...
Techs for License
Page-Rendering Software for eBooks and Manufacturers
Rapidly evolving eBook technology promises to deliver books, catalogs, newspapers, or magazines anywhere electronically on compact, easy-to-carry readers. eBooks face challenges that physical books do not: file security during transmission, speed of transmission, and the risk of piracy. The...
Techs for License: Materials
Anti-Reflective Coating for Films
Able to withstand abrasion even with steel wool, these antireflective coating formulations for display applications offer high durability and reflectivity that ranges from 1.2% down to 0.5%. Reducing ambient light reflectance significantly improves image clarity on LCD and PDP displays and rearprojection...
Tech Needs
Masking of Bitter Ingredients
A company seeks technology to mask ingredient bitterness in its oral delivery system. Specifically, it seeks materials and/or methods to increase the ability of their oral delivery mechanism to carry a given ingredient, while removing any associated bitterness. Possible solution areas include masking bitter components...
Tech Needs
Alternative Approaches to Basis Weight Reduction in Paper
A company seeks technology to replace wood fiber in paper with a bulk filler material having less mass. The company seeks to make small, micron-scale, low-density particles. The filler material would have no negative impact on today’s lightweight paper specifications, including bulk...
Tech Needs: Aerospace
NASA Technology Innovation - Doing Business With NASA
NASA's magazine for business and technology published by the Innovative Partnerships Program.
Table of Contents
Up Front with Douglas A. Comstock What An Exciting Time to be at NASA!
Cover Story Doing Business With NASA
Featured Articles Goddard and LogicNets Collaborate in...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The ability to record simultaneous framing images and streak images has long been a requirement in the research fields of detonation, electrical discharge, biomedical and many other...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
As products become more featurerich, manufacturers are looking at ways to improve the human-computer interface (HCI). Touchscreens, with intuitive operation and software flexibility, and screen-printed...
Articles: Software
In our annual poll of executives at leading analysis and simulation software companies, we posed questions dealing with virtual prototyping, multiphysics, the roles of the designer and analyst,...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Hall Effect position sensors Micropac Industries Garland, TX 972-272-3571 www.micropac.com
Micropac’s hermetic Hall Effect devices are being used by Alliance Spacesystems, LLC and Malin Space...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Hi-Shear separation devices Hi-Shear Technology Corp. Torrance, CA 310-326-8110 www.hi-shear.com
Hi-Shear separation nuts and pressure cartridges recently were used on the Phoenix Mars...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Breeching the security of safety- or security-intensive products such as auto parts, set top boxes, military electronics, or smart batteries can be a lucrative business that is well worth the nominal...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Since the beginning of PC-based data acquisition and control in the 1980s, one question has remained a constant consideration for all who would specify a new DAQ system. Is this application better...
NASA Tech Needs
NASA is focused on building a human outpost on the lunar surface. To reach this goal, there is a critical need to develop energy storage technologies to power the future lunar...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
An ever-increasing reliance on software control has meant that many companies from non-aerospace business sectors (automotive, nuclear power, MRI scanners, financial...
Products: Software
Geotest - Marvin Test Systems, Irvine, CA, has introduced ATEasy 7.0, the latest version of its application development framework for functional test, automated test equipment (ATE), data acquisition, process control, and...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The design of enclosures to house networking servers and components should be guided by one overriding concern — heat. Servers, in particular, generate a great deal of heat, so an...
Products: Electronics & Computers
ACT/Technico (Warminster, PA) now offers the VME RAIDStor, a single-slot 6U network attached storage (NAS) blade that provides the same automatic, transparent data replication and re-sync of traditional box-level RAID storage...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Aimtec (Montreal, Canada) has introduced the 2 watt AM2GW-NZ series of ultra wide input (4:1) DC-DC switching power supplies with operating temperature range of -40°C to + 85°C. Versatile, single and...
Who's Who: Aerospace
Robert W. Moorehead served as NASA’s chief investigator for the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986 and managed the Space Station Freedom program from...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Renesas Technology (San Jose, CA) has introduced the SH7262 and SH7264 series of high-performance SuperH® 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) with 1Mbyte of on-chip SRAM. The 144MHz devices are highly integrated and...
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