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Upcoming Webinars: Unmanned Systems
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Recent industry breakthroughs in self-driving vehicles are enabling the potential use of autonomous ground vehicles in military operations....

Upcoming Webinars: Defense
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) relies on a vast network of supply, logistics, and maintenance functions to meet its operational requirements. Maintaining...

Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Insaco manufactured custom tooling to meet the unique part specifications for NASA’s DISSIPATION mission, which will enable better understanding of how the energy imparted by solar winds into the atmosphere is dispersed.
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Podcasts: Defense
The guest on this first episode of the new A&DT podcast is Shaan Shaikh, a fellow with the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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Articles: Energy
NASA’s Artemis program consists of a series of missions designed to land humans on the Moon and establish a sustainable, continuing presence. A long-term foothold on the Moon’s surface enables invaluable research and testing opportunities that will set the stage for future groundbreaking missions, including the first human mission to Mars.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
NASA’s Langley Research Center has developed a simplified, tool-less automated tow/tape placement (ATP) system. This invention enables several benefits that mitigate limitations associated with conventional ATP systems. Read on to learn more.
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White Papers: Motion Control
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Selecting Precision Motors for Smart Defense Applications

Today’s leading defense contractors rely on key manufacturers to provide critical control and actuation solutions to achieve superiority through the deployment of various smart...

Quiz: RF & Microwave Electronics
How much do you know about the history of space telescopes? Test your knowledge with this quiz.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics

Last June, the European Commission and the European Space Agency awarded Kuva Space a €5M commercial contract to be the sole provider of hyperspectral data...

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White Papers: Aerospace
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One Component Epoxies: Versatility and Convenience

To understand one part epoxy systems, you need to know how a two part system works. In this white paper, we explore how a one part system is constructed, how it can and should be used, and...

White Papers: Semiconductors & ICs
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Adhesives for Electric Vehicles and Automotive Sensors

The rise of electric vehicles and driver aids along with the proliferation of electronic sensors and safety features point towards continued growth in automotive electronics. Due to...

On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Early additive manufacturing (AM) adopters in the aerospace industry are leveraging advanced 3D printing technologies from industry leaders like HP and...

White Papers: Electronics & Computers
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Strategies for Deploying Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

Xilinx’s new RFSoC brings a powerful and unique solution for addressing some of the most demanding requirements of high bandwidth and high channel count systems. This paper...

White Papers: Aerospace
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A Generational Leap in Edge Computing with the Versal® ACAP

Victory on the twenty-first century battlefield now requires processing vast quantities of information in real time. More detailed imagery is needed to enable better...

Quiz: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, NASA is working with several U.S. companies to accelerate a robotic return to the Moon. Test your knowledge about commercial lunar landers in this quiz.
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NASA Spinoff: Design
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope pushed optical modeling capabilities, driving advances in software used to design medical and augmented reality devices.
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Blog: Software
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is at the precipice of groundbreaking historic opportunity with the launch of its Peregrine Mission One (PM1), which, if successful, will make it the first U.S. commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon.
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
Find out which five of our quizzes were the most popular in 2023.
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Blog: Aerospace
Which videos were the most popular this year? Find out, as we’ve curated the top 5 Tech Briefs videos from 2023. Relive their greatness here.
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Blog: Design
If you missed the most-popular engineering stories of 2023 on Tech Briefs, see the list below.
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Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Passive thermal control systems have been developed over years of research and product development and will serve as enabling technology for NASA’s VIPER and future missions.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Traffic-Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR), developed by NASA, is a piece of software pilots and ground operations teams can use to find better routes in transit.
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White Papers: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Hawk Ridge and Markforged Bring You the Latest in Additive Technology For Aerospace

Aerospace industry leaders like Boeing and the U.S. Department of Defense optimize mission timelines through in-house additive manufacturing. This approach...

Briefs: Power
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed a coil-on-plug ignition system for integrated liquid oxygen/liquid methane thermal-vacuum environment propulsion systems operating in a thermal vacuum environment. The innovation will help quell corona discharge issues and reduce overall mass.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A research team at the Illinois Institute of Technology has for the first time demonstrated the use of a novel control method in a tailless aircraft. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible — making it safer to fly in dangerous areas where radar scans the sky for sharp edges.
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Briefs: Energy
A team of MIT engineers is creating a one-megawatt motor that could be a key stepping-stone toward electrifying larger aircraft. The team has designed and tested the major components of the motor.
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Briefs: Aerospace
NASA Ames Research Center has developed a novel technology — a system and approach for creating artificial gravity using a non-rotating spacecraft with connected moving modules, which can be used for habitation and other purposes.
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Briefs: Aerospace
When multiple drones are working together in the same airspace, perhaps spraying pesticide over a field of corn, there’s a risk they might crash into each other. To help avoid these costly crashes, MIT researchers developed a system called MADER in 2020.
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