Briefs: Aerospace
Inductive Power Transfer for Spaceflight Systems
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has developed technology that uses inductive power transfer (IPT) for wireless power interfaces between spaceflight elements (such as the payload, vehicle, and pad). Current spaceflight systems require traditional hardwire connections for power interfaces. This...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Two-Dimensional Materials Improve Efficiency of Lithium-Air Batteries
Lithium-air batteries are poised to become the next replacement for currently used lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles, cell-phones, and computers....
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hybrid Cathodes Could Boost Energy Capacity of Lithium Batteries
Today's lithium-ion batteries use cathodes (one of the two electrodes in a battery) made of a transition metal oxide. Batteries with cathodes made of sulfur are considered a...
Blog: Propulsion
What is the ‘Lunar Gateway?’ NASA Details Its Return to the Moon
White Papers: Medical
How to Assemble Your Microfluidic Test Device - Automated or By Hand
When you’re a medical designer building a Point-of-Care microfluidic test device, you need to precisely control the alignment of layer components. A new white paper from...
Podcasts: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Here's an Idea: Apollo 11
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A Work of Art: Researchers Create Complex Actuators, Automatically
Articles: Wearables
The Sensors Behind the GEN II Wearable Device
The population is aging and more people need healthcare support, which is having a big impact on the overall cost of medical care. As a result, authorities and health insurance companies are...
5 Ws: Green Design & Manufacturing
5 Ws of PDK Recyclable Plastic
Anyone who uses products made of plastic. The new recyclable plastic could be a good alternative to many nonrecyclable plastics in use today.
Application Briefs: Materials
Machining Capabilities Enhance Space-Related Programs
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www.insaco.com
Since 1947, Insaco has been machining, grinding, and polishing ceramics, sapphire, and glass to meet and often exceed client...
Facility Focus: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center
On September 1, 1961, NASA requested appropriations for initial land purchases on Merritt Island on Florida’s east coast to support the Apollo Lunar Landing Program. Designers quickly began developing...
Briefs: Lighting
3D Printing of Flexible Circuits
A process was developed for 3D printing that can be used to produce transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circuits. The electronics consist of a mesh of silver nanowires that can be printed in suspension and embedded in various flexible and transparent plastics (polymers). This technology can enable...
Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
New on the Market: July 2019
The induSENSOR MSC7401 sensor controller from Micro-Epsilon, Ortenburg, Germany, is used for displacement and distance measurements and is operated with LVDT and LDR measuring gauges...
Products: Photonics/Optics
New Products: July 2019 Photonics & Imaging Technology
Ophir-Spiricon (North Logan, UT) has announced Ophir® BeamWatch® Integrated, a fully automated, non-contact laser...
Briefs: Aerospace
Wafer-Level Microchannel Fabrication Process for Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Microchannels fabricated into a silicon-Pyrex wafer with a diameter of 75 m and total channel length of 40, 60, 80, or 100 mm — characterized by specialized microbeads...
Briefs: Communications
Sensor Network for Air Vehicles
Aircraft currently fly based on coarse estimations of environment and aircraft state. Real-time measurements are traditionally restricted to laboratory environments (e.g. wind tunnel) due to the size and...
Articles: Aerospace
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11: Getting There, To a New Era of Space Exploration
For the first time in a generation, NASA is building a human spacecraft for deep-space missions that will usher in a new era of space...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Breakthrough Could Enable Infrared Cameras for Electronics, Self-Driving Cars
There's an entire world our eyes miss, hidden in the ranges of light wavelengths that human eyes can't see. But infrared cameras can pick up this light emitted as...
Briefs: Energy
Automated Guided Wave System for In-Process Cure Monitoring of CFRP Composite Laminates
In the polymer composites industry, cure cycles are typically developed from trial-and-error or a more effective processing science approach to reduce...
Articles: Transportation
Design of an Energy-Efficient Critical Angle Lens Reflector
The critical angle lens reflector has commercial applications that supersede ordinary mirrored reflectors. The physics of the critical angle lens reflector are based on the optics...
Application Briefs: Imaging
Automotive Lidar Trends
Real-time 3D lidar is poised to be the third leg of the trifecta of sensor technologies enabling both advanced driver-assistance (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The other two pieces are cameras and radar. David Hall,...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11: Back to the Moon
The Moon is a treasure chest of science. The lunar samples returned during the Apollo program dramatically changed our view of the solar system, yet they just scratch the...
Articles: Aerospace
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11: On to Mars
Just 54 years ago, the first photograph of Mars from a passing spacecraft appeared to show a hazy atmosphere. Now, decades of exploration on the planet itself has shown it to be a...
Articles: Propulsion
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11: Exploring Apollo's Impact Beyond 'One Small Step'
On July 20, 1969, humans walked on another world for the first time in history. After a landing that included dodging a lunar crater and boulder...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
With Embedded App, 'Anyone Can Program Robots'
Blog: Photonics/Optics
LASER World of PHOTONICS, Day 3 — Unusual Exhibits
Blog: Energy
How to Produce More Clean Water? Resemble the Rose.
News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers Develop Concept for Hybrid Heavy-Duty Trucks
Heavy-duty trucks, such as the 18-wheelers that transport many of the world's goods from farm or factory to market, are virtually all powered by diesel engines. They account for a...
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