Articles : Materials
Products of Tomorrow: April 2018
Articles : Test & Measurement
5 Ws of the iQ Portable Scanner
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Understanding the New Optical Data Interface
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Learn to Trust Your Infrared Camera
Articles : Electronics & Computers
Don't Let Obsolescence Cause Your Test System to Flatline
Articles : Test & Measurement
Smart-Grid-Ready Instrumentation
The term “smart grid” is an umbrella term used to refer to new technologies that aim to address today’s electrical power grid challenges. At a high level, these technologies address challenges associated with grid reliability and reactive maintenance, renewables integration, and disturbance detection. One...
Articles : Test & Measurement
The Hubble Space Telescope
Briefs : Test & Measurement
A Continuous-Flow, Microfluidic, Microwave-Assisted Chemical Reactor
In industrial synthetic chemistry laboratories, reactions are generally carried out using batch-mode methodologies, stepwise reactions, and purifications to generate a final product. Each step has an associated yield of both the reaction itself and of the final purification...
Briefs : Test & Measurement
High-Resolution Data Acquisition System Enables Reliable Engine Parameter Measurements
Data acquisition plays a critical role in improving vehicle component performance and overall system reliability. Measuring engine parameters, including engine cranking speed and the mechanical condition of the engine, requires high-resolution data acquisition...
Articles : Sensors/Data Acquisition
Guarded Flat Plate Insulation Test Cryostat
The guarded flat plate insulation test cryostat (Cryostat-500) is a boil-off calorimeter comprising a flat-bottom test apparatus for measuring the absolute thermal performance of an insulation test article. Typical dimensions allow accepting test specimens 200 mm in diameter by up to 30 mm thick. The...
Articles : Test & Measurement
Network Interface Links Sensor-Web Instruments
NASA Airborne Science operates a fleet of aircraft in conjunction with orbiting satellites for Earth observations. In 2004, NASA started planning missions to employ constellations of instruments flying on those platforms that would mutually interact and communicate as a network with stations on the...
Articles : Information Technology
Protecting Data Signals Through Isolation
Many of us believe that if we don’t have ground loops we don’t need to isolate analog I/O signals. Yet there are five very real – and very different – reasons to isolate every one of your analog signals! If you’ve had problems on past applications, chances are you experienced one of the...
Articles : Aerospace
Fly-by-Wireless: A Less-Wire and Wireless Revolution for Aerospace Vehicle Architectures
Every ounce of weight brought to the lunar surface costs 40 to 60 times that in fuel needed at liftoff from the Earth. Part of that weight penalty is due to wires, but the cost of wires is much more than weight. Wired connectivity drives up the price of...
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