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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pressure sensor Sporian® Microsystems Lafayette, CO 303-516-9116 www.sporian.com
Sporian Microsystems has been awarded a NASA contract to develop a capacitive pressure sensor. The...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As any dolphin could tell us, sound travels well in water. While water absorbs electromagnetic radiation and light waves over relatively short distances, sound travels widely and...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The Hall effect can be observed when the combination of a magnetic field through a sample and a current along the length of the sample create an...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Heat exchanger coilsSuper Radiator CoilsChaska, MN952-556-3330superradiatorcoils.com
A 25-foot-high wall of heat exchanger coils manufactured by Super Radiator Coils will replace the...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data communications in industrial environments can present special problems. Lines must be run over long distances, often ranging from thousands of feet to several miles, indoors and...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) primary role is to develop science and technology to support unmanned missions to study the Earth, Sun, solar system, and universe. GSFC is responsible for several of...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Hexagon Metrology (North Kingston, RI) has announced the manual Cognitens WLS400M and the automated Cognitens WLS400A measurement systems. The white light measurement products use digital stereo...
Application Briefs: Imaging
For five years, Michael Lunoe, President of Zorg Industries, had been in need of a camera system that could identify objects and provide accurate distance from the rear of a vehicle.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
CCD TH7888A imaging sensorse2vChelmsford, Essex, UK+44 (0) 1245 493 493www.e2v.com
Earlier this year, NASA’s MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. The e2v Charge Coupled...
Products: Test & Measurement
National Instruments, Austin, TX, has released the NI PXIe-5186 digitizer, co-developed with Tektronix, Beaverton, OR. The unit achieves up to 5 GHz bandwidth and 12.5 GS/s sample rates. The NI PXIe-5185 delivers 3 GHz...
Briefs: Medical
Electronic biosensing technology could someday displace the multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories. Essentially arrays of...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The European Space Agency is funding e2v’s development of an image sensor for the visible instrument in the Euclid space telescope. Euclid is a candidate mission for one of two...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Motion Components Optimize Performance of Liquid Chromatography System
Pricing pressures, intense competition, and strict regulatory demands are challenging scientists and researchers in the fast-growing, highly-regulated pharmaceutical, life science, biochemical, industrial, and environmental industries to make important breakthroughs faster and...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The Constellation Program and the Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP) funded the development of diagnostic models using the TEAMS (Testability Engineering and Maintenance...
Application Briefs: Motion Control
New Shepard rocket-propelled vehicle
Blue Origin Kent, WA 253-872-0411 www.blueorigin.com
Blue Origin has received funding from NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative to develop a...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Food manufacturers are held to strict agency regulations regarding product quality and consistency. Repeatable visual inspections are critical to ensure consumers receive a consistent and...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Eddy-current displacement sensorsLion PrecisionSt. Paul, MN651-484-6544 www.lionprecision.com
Stennis Space Center, NASA’s Mississippi-based headquarters for...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
A unique cavitating pump dynamics test facility has been developed at Concepts NREC (CN, White River Junction, VT) in cooperation with engineers at NASA Marshall Space...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
PIHER North America (Libertyville, IL) offers the PS15 rotary position sensor in a 15-mm package. It is surface-mountable for detecting changes in angle and position, and converting them to a voltage output. It can be...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Inductive Non-Contact Position Sensor
Optical hardware has been developed to measure the depth of defects in the Space Shuttle Orbiter’s windows. In this hardware, a mirror is translated such that its position corresponds to the defect’s depth, so the depth measurement problem is transferred to a mirror-position measurement problem. This is...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The NASA World Wind Java computer program developed at Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, has won NASA’s 2009 Software of the Year award. Software engineers at Ames created the NASA World Wind...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data acquisition and distribution systemsG SystemsRichardson, TX972-234-6000 www.gsystems.com
G Systems has delivered a Data Acquisition System (DAS) for the Orion crew...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Multi-paction effects can impact microwave components in high-power satellite communications (sat-com) systems. The nonlinear break-down-voltage phenomenon occurs in high-vacuum environments above...
Application Briefs: Imaging
e2v CCD203-82 charge-coupled device sensorse2v TechnologiesEssex, United Kingdom+44 (0)1245 493493 www.e2v.com
Six Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors have been...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The ability to make real-time decisions based on pressure, temperature, or flow measurements while a process is running can provide significant advantages in a measurement and control...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A 311-GHz Fundamental Oscillator Using InP HBT Technology
This oscillator uses a single-emitter 0.3-μm InP heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device with maximum frequency of oscillation (fmax) greater than 500 GHz. Due to high conductor and substrate losses at submillimeter-wave frequencies, a primary challenge is to efficiently use the...
Tech Needs: Test & Measurement
Real-Time Analysis and Reporting of Water-Borne Microorganisms
A company seeks a technology that enables monitoring of the microorganism content of stored potable water in real time, and reporting the water’s status to assure its continued potability even after storage times as long as a year. The apparatus must be small and lightweight, require...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Genesis HighSpeed data acquisition products HBM Marlborough, MA 800-578-4260 www.hbm.com/highspeed
In order to protect the space shuttle from lightning strikes while it is outside the Vehicle...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber reinforced polymer composites are revolutionizing the design of large, high-performance structures in the aerospace, marine and power generation industries due to their...
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