Briefs: Communications
Low-Noise Analog APDs with Impact Ionization Engineering and Negative Feedback
Silicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) have low dark current and low excess noise factor, and are currently used in many of NASA’s missions. Noise equivalent power (NEP) of 40 to 50 fW/(Hz)1/2 over 140-MHz bandwidth has been demonstrated for Si APDs. Si...
Briefs: Communications
Method to Improve Wireless System Communication Coverage in a Bended Tunnel Environment
The conventional methods of improving wireless system coverage performance are to increase the transmitter power and/or antenna gain. The high transmit power could lead to more power consumption and RF exposure issues. The use of a high-gain antenna could...
Briefs: Software
Space Weather Database of Notifications, Knowledge, Information — DONKI
SW DONKI is a comprehensive Web application for space weather forecasters, scientists, and the general space weather community. It serves as an archive for space weather activities including solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar energetic particles, and...
Briefs: Information Technology
Core Flight System (cFS) Software Bus Network Application Version 1.0
The Software Bus Network (SBN) is a plug-in component developed for the Core Flight System (cFS) framework that extends the core Flight Executive (cFE) Software Bus (SB) publish/subscribe messaging service across partitions, processes, processors, and networks. This extension...
Briefs: Information Technology
STARS Finite Element Multidisciplinary Analysis Computer Program
An efficient, cost-effective, and unique computer program has been developed that analyzes a variety of practical engineering problems. STructural Analysis Routines (STARS) is a fully integrated, multidisciplinary, finite element-based, graphic-oriented analysis tool that combines...
Briefs: Software
Hazards Analysis Management Tool
The Hazard Analysis Management Tool (HAMT) is comprised of a database and user interface that manages hazard analysis information, manages hazard verifications, and manages relationships between hazard attributes and project elements. The tool offers numerous benefits including the ability for multiple users to...
Briefs: Information Technology
Developing Web and Mobile Applications Integrated with Systems Utilizing the Object Management Group’s Data Distribution Service
Several software application development tools exist that enable the rapid development of Web applications. Among other things, Web applications greatly enhance the human-computer interaction (HCI) required by many...
Briefs: Software
Synthetic Imaging Maneuver Optimization — SIMO
Space-based interferometry missions have the potential to revolutionize imaging and astrometry, providing observations of unprecedented accuracy. Realizing the full potential of these interferometers poses several significant technological challenges. These include the efficient maneuvering of...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
'Gate Sensor' Detects Individual Electrons
A team of European researchers at the University of Cambridge has created an electronic device that detects the charge of a single electron in less than one microsecond. The "gate sensor" could be applied to quantum computers of the future to read information stored in the charge or spin of a single...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Wearable Device Turns Thumbnail into Trackpad
MIT Media Laboratory researchers are developing a wearable device that turns the user’s thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.
INSIDER: Software
Engineers Develop 2D Liquid
Soft nanoparticles from a University of Pennsylvania research team stick to the plane where oil and water meet, but do not stick to one another. The interface presents a potentially useful set of properties. The nanoparticles freely move past one another while being confined to the interface, effectively acting as a...
INSIDER: Imaging
Prototype Camera Powers Itself
A new prototype video camera is fully self-powered and can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene. Columbia University researchers designed a pixel that can not only measure incident light but also convert the incident light into electric power.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Over the past several decades, the progress in micro fabrication technology has revolutionized the world in such fields as computing, signal processing, and...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A Yale lab has developed a new, radio frequency processing device that allows information to be controlled more effectively, opening the door to a new generation of...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Linear Technology’s (Milpitas, CA) SmartMesh IP(TM) wireless sensor networking products now provide the ability to program industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications directly on the...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Acopian Power Supplies (Easton, PA) announced that its Narrow Profile power supply series is now certified to UL Safety Standards UL 60950 (Information Technology Equipment) and UL 508 (Industrial Control Equipment), and...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Kontron (Augsburg, Germany) has introduced the latest member of the KBox series, the KBox A-103. The new KBox A-103 is equipped with scalable SMARC modules, which have the latest Intel(R) Embedded-Power-Atom(TM) processors,...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Wind River(R) has expanded its Wind River Helix product portfolio to address the Internet of Things (IoT). Wind River has added application and data services in the cloud to its operating systems and IoT software...
INSIDER: Energy
Fuel Breakthrough Supports Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles
Virginia Tech researchers have created hydrogen fuel using abundantly available corn stover – the stalks, cobs, and husks.
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
As urban populations increase, so too does the complexity involved in maintaining basic services like clean water and emergency services. But one of the biggest barriers to...
Question of the Week: Energy
Will hydrogen fuel cell vehicles ever achieve widespread use?
This week's Question: Today's INSIDER story highlighted a discovery in alternative energy production that may provide a breakthrough for hydrogen-fueled vehicles. According to researcher Joe Rollin, the technology "has the potential to enable the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cell...
INSIDER: Aerospace
New Materials Enable Flapping Robotic Wings
Dielectric elastomers, popular materials in robotic hands, soft robots, tunable lenses, and pneumatic valves, may now be used to create flapping robotic wings.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers Develop Hybrid Supercapacitors
UCLA researchers have successfully combined two nanomaterials to create a new energy storage medium that combines the best qualities of batteries and supercapacitors.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Elmo Motion Control (Nashua, NH) offers the NANO Gold Twitter servo drive that delivers up to 4000 Watts of qualitative power, current up to 50A at 100VDC, and up to 15A/200V with advanced servo capabilities and support for...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Existing implementations of continuous wave (CW) radar are not packaged appropriately for use as part of a heartbeat detection system for disaster search and rescue. They use separately packaged microwave...
Briefs: Materials
White, Electrically Conductive, Radiation-Stable, Thermal Control Coating
A highly reflective, white conductive coating system was developed using a layered approach with a combination of commercially available white conductive pigments within a conductive binder system. The top coating is a space-stable, radiation-resistant, highly reflective...
Briefs: Aerospace
Pyramid Micro-Electrofluidic-Spray Propulsion Thruster with Integrated Attitude and Thrust Vector Control
A micro-electrofluidic-spray propulsion (MEP) system was built on a micro scale, in which arrays of hundreds of nano-thrusters are etched on silicon wafers like ICs, only a centimeter on a side. Many dozens of these thruster chips can be...
Products: Software
Onshape, Inc., Cambridge, MA, introduced Onshape, the first full-cloud 3D CAD system with built-in data collaboration and management that lets all members of a design team work together using any Web browser, phone, or...
Briefs: Lighting
High-Performance Photocatalytic Oxidation Reactor System
As crewed space missions extend beyond low Earth orbit, the need to reliably recover potable water is critical. Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the water is recycled from cabin humidity condensate, urine distillate, and hygiene wash wastes. In spacecraft cabin air...
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