Aerospace & Defence

It has been announced that New Yorker Electronics is distributing the newest Exxelia Sic Safco Long-Life Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor. The Felsic HV family of aluminium electrolytic screw terminal capacitors provides great performances in energy density combined with an ultra-long lifetime.

A technology and quality-driven Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, Digicom Electronics, has announced that its Reconfigurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware (ROACH) System (the spectrometer system it builds for worldwide astronomers) was instrumental in collecting the data used to capture the first-ever photo of a black hole.

  An intelligent and fully automated complete solution for honeycomb potting in the aerospace industry reduces the weight of the end product, significantly reduces labour and material consumption, and provides consistent, repeatable dispensing results.

HALE (High Altitude Long Endurance) UAVs and HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites) are massive aircraft, often with wingspans as large as a Boeing 747, that rely on solar power to remain aloft for multiple weeks, or even months, at a time. The stratosphere, at an altitude of 20km, poses engineering challenges to aircraft due to its harsh conditions.

This week, the world had a first view of the ground-breaking discoveries brought forth by Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) – an international scientific collaboration aiming to create a virtual Earth-sized telescope. The images of the event horizon of a black hole were constructed from data gathered by observatories all over the globe. Guest article written by Andreea Volosincu, Wind River.

Independent supplier of embedded electronic and computing systems, North Atlantic Industries (NAI), has announced an initial contract award from General Dynamics Land Systems (GD) to provide a Resolver-to-Digital Convertor (RDC), Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Mezzanine Card (PMC) (RDC PMC) for the Abrams M1A2 System Enhanced Package (SEP) Version 2 (V2) M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank. 

Especially designed for commercial avionics, SynQor has announced its new AeroQor product line, composed of next generation, high efficiency, isolated power factor correction modules (APFIC) and AC filters specifically designed to meet the most stringent commercial airline specifications (RTCA/DO-160G, Boeing and Airbus).

Another successful flight of its SCS750 Single Board Computer (SBC) on the Second Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT-2) has been announced by Data Device Corporation (DDC). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA successfully launched H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 40 (H-IIA F40,) which encapsulates the GOSAT-2 satellite, on October 29th, 2018 from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center. 

It has been announced that Trackwise has shipped a 26m long multilayer, flexible printed circuit (FPC), believed to be world’s longest, for distributing power and control signals across the wings of a solar-powered, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The circuit is one of over fifty supplied by Trackwise into this vehicle.

  TE Connectivity has released its newly developed CII FCC-360 contactors. The 60A contactors are smaller, lighter and offer higher resistive contact ratings than similar products on the market.