The radiation from solar flares and cosmic rays and their potential for causing DNA damage clearly pose a threat to astronauts spending extended periods of time on the Moon. Now a team of engineering students from North Carolina State University (NCSU) has designed a “lunar textsheild”—a layered blanket made of lightweight polymer material. The outer service of the shield is a … [Read more...]
COTS Processor Platform with Mobile Pentium
The DuroCOR® 810 from Parvus Corporation is a rugged military-grade processor system crafted for high reliability applications requiring MIL-STD-810 F environmental compliance. It withstands extreme temperature, shock/vibration, and ingress conditions. It features protection against dust exposure, water immersion, EMI, and corrosion. This field-ready mission computer is well … [Read more...]
Nanocomp Technologies Wins Two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contracts from United States Air Force
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 10:18 am EDTCONCORD, NH –Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced that it has been awarded two new contracts by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.The light weight and … [Read more...]
Air Force Looks to Nanotechnology for Shielding
NH-based Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. has won two SBIR (small business innovation research) contracts from the U.S. Air Force. The light weight and conductive nature of CNTs (carbon nanotubes) have made them ideal candidates for aerospace applications although practical applications have been limited. Under the terms of the first SBIR, Nanocomp will continue to develop CNT-based … [Read more...]
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TWT Amplifiers Meets Demands HIRF EMC Testing in Commercial AircraftA series of new high-power, pulsed TWT (traveling wave tube) instrumentation microwave amplifiers has been introduced by UK-based TMD Technologies, Ltd. These amplifiers have been optimized to meet the latest stringent demands of high intensity RF (HIRF) EMC testing. The PTC6000 and the PTC7000 TWTAs between … [Read more...]
Reverberation Chamber for EMC Testing
The reverberation chamber provides the most realistic simulation/equivalency for electronics functioning within a cavity Er-Ping Li, Ph.D.; Xing-Chang Wei, Ph.D., Electromagnetic Labs, Singapore National Institute of High Performance Computing Singapore Introduction The problem is familiar, but growing. The widespread and ever-growing use of electronic devices with high-speed … [Read more...]
Major Aerospace and Defense Cuts
Aerospace giant Boeing has announced that it will shed 10,000 employees, or more than six percent of its workforce. Workforce reductions will involve attrition, retirements, reductions in contract labor, and layoffs. This word of job cuts comes amid media reports of significant cancellations of orders for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, once touted as the aircraft that would dominate … [Read more...]
Software Toolbox Provides Environmental Models Magnetic Field, Gravity, & Atmosphere
Aerospace Toolbox 2.2 from the MathWorks provides reference standards, environment models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing for performing advanced aerospace analysis for developing and evaluating designs. Options for visualizing vehicle dynamics include a six-degrees-of-freedom MATLAB animation object and interfaces to the FlightGear flight simulator and Virtual Reality … [Read more...]
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High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial ApplicationsThe Cera-Mite 715CxxKT series, a family of single-layer devices from Vishay Intertechnology, are screw-mount disc capacitors offered in a wide range of diameters and capacitance values over rated voltages from 10 k VDC to 40 k VDC. With low AC and DC coefficients and a negligible … [Read more...]
High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial Applications
AVX HV02-HV06 DIP leaded stack capacitors, SV conformally coated radiated leaded capacitors, and high voltage MLCCs (>/= 1kV) are now available in DO-160 tested versions rendering them suitable for use in flight applications. The typical civilian aircraft is struck by lightning approximately every 1000 flight-time hours, posing a possible threat to increasingly complex and … [Read more...]
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