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Articles: Manned Systems
The Contamination and Coatings Engineering Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, provides system-level support in contamination engineering and thermal...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Beckhoff Automation Savage, MN 952-890-0000 www.beckhoffautomation.com
Large NASA production facilities, such as the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New...
NASA Spinoff: Energy
NASA Technology
Glenn Research Center has always been in the business of perfecting engines. During World War II, the center, then called the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, developed a...
Products: Aerospace
Stratasys, Eden Prairie, MN, introduced the J750 3D printer that produces full-color, multi-material prototypes and parts in a single 3D print without post-processing. Users can choose from more than 360,000 different color...
Products: Aerospace
OMEGA Engineering, Stamford, CT, offers the HHC200 Series portable, rugged environmental meters. Digital thermometers are offered in infrared and dual thermocouple models. Also available are light meters and...
Products: Aerospace
The N1092A, N1092B, and N1092D DCA-M sampling oscilloscopes from Keysight Technologies, Santa Rosa, CA, are designed for 25/100/400 Gb/s optical test. They measure low-power, high-data-rate NRZ and PAM-4 devices and...
Products: Aerospace
The Model 526 Precision DC Voltage/Current Source/Calibrator from Krohn-Hite Corp., Brockton, MA, is a repeatable DC voltage source and DC current source that provides NIST-traceable voltages from ±100 nVdc to...
Products: Aerospace
Yokogawa Corporation of America, Newnan, GA, announced the WT300E series compact power meters that consists of the WT310E single-phase, WT310EH single-phase high current, WT332E two-element, and WT333E three-element models. These...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Pfeiffer Vacuum, Nashua, NH, offers the ASI 35 modular leak detection system for tracer gases helium and hydrogen in integral and localizing test procedures or a combination of both. An optional user interface can be controlled...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tektronix, Beaverton, OR, introduced the PA3000 1- to 4-channel AC/DC power analyzer for testing single- and multiphase, high-efficiency AC-DC and DC-AC power supplies. It features 10-milliwatt standby power measurement...
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Eplan, Monheim, Germany, introduced Syngineer, a communication and information platform that interfaces MCAD, ECAD, and PLC software directly through the mechatronic structure. It synchronizes mechanical engineering,...
Products: Aerospace
Red Rapids, Richardson, TX, introduced the Model 372 FPGA-configurable dual-channel transceiver that features a dual-channel 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and dual-channel 16-bit digital-to-analog converter...
Products: Aerospace
Tech-Etch, Plymouth, MA, offers EMI-shielded vents and air filters in most shapes and sizes. Nine different aluminum honeycomb vents are offered in both standard and custom configurations. Shielded fan vents are...
News: Materials
On your car windshield, ice is a nuisance. But on an airplane, wind turbine, oil rig, or power line, it can be downright dangerous. And removing it with the methods that are...
News: Aerospace
Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, have discovered an unusually shaped structure in two nearby disc galaxies. The Swinburne team recently developed new...
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA Selects Eight Aerospace Technology Proposals for Investment
NASA has selected eight technology proposals for investment. The ideas have the potential to transform future aerospace missions, introduce new capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to building and operating aerospace systems.
Who's Who: Robotics, Automation & Control
On December 6, 2015, two small satellites, or CubeSats, successfully launched to the International Space Station. As part of NASA’s...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took top honors in NASA’s first Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.The challenge: To...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
NASA tested a 3D printed rocket engine turbopump with liquid methane – an ideal propellant for engines needed to power many types of spacecraft for NASA’s journey to Mars. During the full-power...
News: Aerospace
NASA and its partners are validating and advancing technologies that will assist the FAA as they develop the regulations to allow integration of unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Micro Cylindrical Ion Trap Micro Mass Spectrometer Instrument System
The goal of this work was to advance the development of new, extremely small (≈2 cm3), low-power (≈3 W), and low-cost micro mass spectrometer instrument systems (μMSIS) through the application of microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) design and fabrication, and microsystem...
Articles: Defense
Last year, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, tested an additive manufacturing process that is being used to make some of the parts for NASA’s new rocket,...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
maxon RE 13 brushed DC motors maxon precision motors Fall River, MA 508-677-0520 www.maxonmotorusa.com
In 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) will send the Solar Orbiter into space. A...
Articles: Aerospace
NASA Technology
Nick Blanton spends a lot of time outdoors, skiing in the winter months and hiking when the weather’s warm. All of this takes a toll on his electronic gadgets, which are...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technologies NASA develops don’t just blast off into space. They also improve our lives here on Earth. Life-saving search-and-rescue tools, implantable medical devices, advances in commercial aircraft safety,...
Briefs: Aerospace
Autonomous Leading-Edge Slat Device for Reduction of Aeroacoustic Noise Associated with Aircraft Wings
Conventional transport aircraft wing design is driven mainly by cruise efficiency, i.e., adequate lift is generated at high speed for level flight with minimal drag. Conventional high-lift systems (leading edge slats and trailing edge flaps) were...
Briefs: Aerospace
StormGen Weather Editor
Experiments that take into account the impact of convective weather on airspace operations, future concepts, and flight deck tools require a source of weather data that is readily available, of predictable quality, and tailorable to experimental objectives. Real-world weather data is sparse, highly random, and disorganized....
Briefs: Aerospace
Pair-wise Trajectory Management (PTM) Airborne Human Machine Interface (HMI) Display Design
Pair-wise Trajectory Management (PTM) is a concept that utilizes airborne and ground-based capabilities to enable airborne spacing operations in oceanic regions. The goal of PTM is to use enhanced surveillance, along with airborne tools, to manage the...
Briefs: Aerospace
Airframe noise is a significant part of the overall noise of typical transport aircraft during the approach and landing phases of flight. Airframe noise reduction is...
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