Military & Aerospace
Star Projects - Self-adjusting bed
April 27, 2011 7:14 am | News | CommentsThe project proposes to design a specialty bed with a positioning functionality that allows patients with limited mobility to change their position in bed without need of assistance from hospital personnel.
NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Endeavour Launch
April 26, 2011 9:36 am | News | CommentsNASA invited 150 lucky people to a behind-the-scenes perspective from the press site at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the final launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Friday, April 29. The launch is scheduled for 3:47 p.m. EDT.
Power System Targets Deployment and Operations Equipment
April 26, 2011 7:11 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe MIL-VicH Series is a series of ruggedized military compliant DC to DC and DC to AC systems built for deployment and operations equipment. This series is available to all military, homeland security and government contractors.
Surface mount inductors exceed the requirements of most mil-aero applications
April 26, 2011 6:06 am | Product Releases | CommentsNew Coilcraft CPS military-grade power inductors take a low profile with the new ML563PKA Series. These robust ferrite-core surface mount inductors are constructed of high-temperature materials, to exceed the requirements of most military and aerospace applications...
Infrared imaging sensor features enhanced factor of merit
April 26, 2011 5:56 am | Product Releases | CommentsULIS announced today that it will launch Pico640E, a new VGA (video graphics array) 640 x 480 17-micron IR imaging sensor that offers new advantages in size, performance and factor of merit.
Field Test 1
April 25, 2011 5:24 pm | by DU2SL | Videos | CommentsTesting of the DU Unmanned Systems Lab GUI control and autonomous robot control
Low-Cost, Stabilized Pan-Tilts Announced
April 25, 2011 7:02 am | Product Releases | CommentsFLIR Motion Control Systems (MCS) announced the release of the new Inertial Stabilization Module (ISM) for its E-Series pan/tilt models. The E-Series ISM is an open architecture inertial stabilization option on high-performance MCS pan/tilts...
Ariane 5’s second launch of 2011
April 25, 2011 5:51 am | News | CommentsLast night, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight VA201 was the second Ariane 5 launch of 2011.
Transparent heaters serve outdoor, military or avionic applications
April 25, 2011 5:29 am | Product Releases | CommentsDontech has introduced the Therma Klear Flex series of thin flexible transparent heaters for use in outdoor, military or avionic applications. Therma Klear Flex transparent heaters provide the warmth necessary to extend the operating temperature...
Calling all candidates for Concordia
April 22, 2011 5:49 am | News | CommentsThey are more cut off than the crew of the International Space Station. They are at Concordia in Antarctica, and one of them is ESA researcher Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott. If you want to follow in his footsteps, ESA is looking for his successor.
Rural development gets help from the sky
April 22, 2011 5:41 am | News | CommentsThe International Fund for Agricultural Development has been funding projects in Madagascar for over 30 years to eradicate rural poverty. With the country facing an exploding population and food crisis, the agency is looking skyward for support.
Early European astronomers determined Easter dates
April 22, 2011 5:36 am | News | CommentsHow do they know it’s Easter? Ever wondered how the exact dates of the Easter break are chosen? Easter Sunday can fall anytime between 22 March and 25 April and, thanks to European observations of the Sun that go back many centuries, the exact date can be predicted as far ahead as 4099 AD.
Pope to call space station in papal first
April 22, 2011 5:24 am | News | CommentsPope Benedict XVI will be in satellite contact with two Italian astronauts aboard the International Space Station in what would be the first papal call to space.
Cambridge Consultants awarded second Queen’s Award for Enterprise
April 21, 2011 9:35 am | News | CommentsCambridge Consultants has been awarded a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, this time in the Innovation category, for its ground breaking through-wall radar, Prism 200. The award follows on from the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2009.
Meeting the Demand for Complex Communications Design
April 21, 2011 8:56 am | by Jon Friedman, Aerospace and Defense Marketing Manager, MathWorks | Articles | CommentsCommunications engineers today must design to accommodate changing missions, shorter product lifecycles, and increasing computer power. Using Model-Based Design, engineering teams developing advanced communications systems can collaborate...
Making OpenVPX Work for Your Mil-Aero Application
April 21, 2011 8:44 am | by Justin Moll, Director of Marketing, Elma Bustronic | Articles | CommentsOpenVPX is a critical new open standard architecture that has gained rapid acceptance in the Mil/Aero embedded system community. However, the VITA 65 specification for OpenVPX is very complex, and there are potential pitfalls.
Imaging Detectors Are at The Heart of Challenging Space Instruments
April 21, 2011 8:27 am | by David Morris, e2v, www.e2v.com | Articles | CommentsImaging detectors are at the heart of many of the most challenging space instruments. Whether it is the need to ‘see’ far off galaxies, or to help predict the Earth’s weather, the ability to capture an image is an essential prerequisite for a significant proportion of the space missions...
Power Quality in Military Applications
April 21, 2011 7:17 am | by Ron Demcko, Application Engineering Manager at AVX Corp | Articles | CommentsMilitary electronics, whether land, air or sea based all require increased amounts of power due to functionality and mission profile expectations. An easy-to-relate example of this is the 20-pound battery load a soldier might carry for a three-day mission.
Achieving SWaP Reductions through Advanced Microelectronic Packaging Solutions
April 21, 2011 7:01 am | by Dave Moore, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, Steve Rosser, Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. and Kim Blackwell, Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. | Articles | CommentsToday’s military electronics demand increased mobility and extended operational life. This enhanced product viability requires significant SWaP (size, weight, and power) reductions. Through advanced microelectronic packaging solutions available...
Last Shuttle ride to ISS for ESA astronaut with ‘dark matter’ hunter
April 19, 2011 9:31 am | News | CommentsESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and the five other astronauts of the STS-134 mission will be launched to the International Space Station on Space Shuttle Endeavour on 29 April to deliver a pioneering scientific experiment.
ESA–NASA collaboration furthers sea-ice research
April 19, 2011 9:20 am | News | CommentsA carefully executed operation to validate data from CryoSat has shown what can be accomplished when ESA, NASA and others join forces to further our understanding of how the fragile polar environment is responding to climate change.
NASA awards funds to develop commercial space taxis
April 19, 2011 6:32 am | News | CommentsNASA divided up more than $269 million on Monday among several companies vying to build commercial spaceships to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, the space agency said.
China stealth fighter ''appears'' to have made second flight
April 19, 2011 6:29 am | News | CommentsChina appears to have staged a second test-flight of a new stealth fighter jet, a state-owned newspaper said on Tuesday, which if true could be another step toward narrowing the military gap with the United States.
iPad app shows US library's Civil War images in 3D
April 19, 2011 5:21 am | News | CommentsA new iPad app developed from images from the Library of Congress is giving viewers a look at the Civil War in 3D. The app is called "History 3D: Civil War."
Memory module optimized for use in military vehicle applications
April 19, 2011 5:11 am | Product Releases | CommentsApacer Technology Inc. recently announced the strategic collaboration with Diamond Systems Corporation (DSC) based in the U.S. The move is to develop SODIMM — a specification for rugged SODIMM memory dedicated to DSC’s single-board computers (SBCs).
