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Solar Storms Prediction

 

An international panel of experts led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), which is funded by NASA, is predicting that a new active period of solar storms will be the weakest since 1928. The panel predicts that the upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with 90 sunspots per day on average, making it the weakest … [Read more...]

Mysterious Signal in Cumbrian Village

 

In more news from regulators, Ofcom, the UK agency charged with achieving the most efficient use of the spectrum, commissioned another study which mapped the use of spectrum throughout the UK. Several anomalies turned up in the study. Just north of Cambridge, high powered transmissions can be detected in the 863- to 870-MHz band that is ostensibly for the use of short-range … [Read more...]

FCC: Wrong Frequencies Can Be Costly

 

In a further enforcement action, the Federal Communications Commission issued another “Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture” to Corr Wireless Communications for operating two microwave stations WMV851 and WPJK282 on unauthorized frequencies. Following a complaint, it was learned that these two stations had been operating on frequencies 2118.5 MHz and on 2168.45 MHz, … [Read more...]

Giant Blanket as Lunar Shield

 

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...]

Forum on CPSIA Compliance

 

Well know test firm Intertek will offer a two-hour Lunch & Learn Forum on compliance with the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Several factors including mandatory third-party testing, newly prohibited acts, and several other provisions have posed serious questions and raised the spectre of pitfalls for importers and manufacturers. The presenter Quin Dodd … [Read more...]

New Technology Cloaks Ship's Magnetic Signature

 

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) Ship Engineering Station in Philadelphia have developed a high temperature superconducting (HTS) degaussing coil that utilizes superconducting ceramic materials that neutralize the magnetic signature of a ship. On April 1, the USS Higgins, equipped with the new technology, … [Read more...]

Mission-Critical Subcomponent Firm Acquired

 

Miami-based HEICO Corporation has announced that its Electronic Technologies Group has acquired 82.5 percent of VPT, Inc. of Blacksburg, VA. VPT is a designer and provider of innovative power conversion products principally serving the high-reliability military, space, and commercial avionics end-markets. VPT’s high density, low profile and lightweight DC-to-DC converters and … [Read more...]

$22 Million for Continued Work on EM Rail Gun

 

General Atomics has announced the award of a follow-on task order valued at $22 million from the Office of Naval Research for the completion of an Advanced Containment Launcher (ACL) in support of the Office of Naval Research’s Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) Rail Gun Program. The 34-month effort will be focused on the final design, fabrication, and testing of an ACL prototype … [Read more...]

U.S. Army Awards Ground Penetrating Radar Contract

 

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has announced that it has received a contract from a U.S. Army agency to develop ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology for use in the detection of unexploded ordnances in overseas operations. Curtiss-Wright Corporation will provide the needed equipment from its embedded computing facility in Trondheim, Norway over the next year. This advanced … [Read more...]

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