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Connectors must ensure signal integrity even when the environment is far from benign; great forces of shock and vibration, and extremes of temperature may be experienced. Wendy Jane Bourne, Technical & Marketing Engineer with Harwin, explores these strains on high reliability connectors in this article from ES Design magazine.

Isotech has recently introduced custom manufactured carbon fiber composites to its line of foamed metals and composites. “Custom carbon fiber composites allow us to provide solutions to specialty application challenges,” said Joe Casillo, president at Isotech.

NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission launched Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey mission will provide additional information to the longest continuous data record of Earth's surface as viewed from space. On-Board the Landsat 8 Satellite will be NASA GFSC space qualified temperature sensors.

Oxford Instruments X-Ray Technology has taken centre stage in the most sophisticated scientific exploration ever attempted on Mars. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, carrying the one-ton “Curiosity” rover, successfully touched down in August and quickly began assessing the planet’s past and current habitability. At the heart of this undertaking is a specially designed Oxford Instruments X-ray tube located in the Curiosity’s Chemis...

Wind River has announced that NASA's Independent Verification and Validation Program is using Wind River Simics, a full system simulator, for its high-fidelity simulator product, GO-SIM. NASA's IV&V Program was founded as part of NASA’s strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission-critical software. Because its primary business includes software test and verification, software simulation...

Yuasa Battery Sales has announced that GS Yuasa lithium-ion batteries manufactured by GS Yuasa Lithium Power are to be installed on the International Space Station following an order from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.

In the last 70 years, Brüel & Kjær systems have measured sound on the International Space Station and ensured all of NASA‘s Mars rovers survived the journey there. Our accelerometers have turned the Golden Gate Bridge into a giant harp and helped maintain hydroelectric generators around the world, while our world-leading microphones and hydrophones have investigated everything from submarines off Sweden to the pressure in Boeing’s wind tunn...

Solar powered aircraft are old news. From Solar Impulse supporting one person day and night with nothing but photovoltaics on the wings to the high altitude unmanned aircraft being developed by Boeing to stay aloft in the upper atmosphere for five years on nothing but sunshine, it is all very exciting. However, if we benchmark what is happening with other electric vehicles such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles AUV, then multiple energy harvestin...

AVX developed and supplied the 630 tantalum multianode capacitors that are responsible for powering the ChemCam laser module on-board Curiosity, which successfully landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.

Custom metal fabricator TC/American Manufacturing recently completed a high-profile project for NASA’s new space shuttle Atlantis display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The Waite Park metal fabrication and machine shop built two massive kinetic theater door panels for the Atlantis display, which is scheduled to open in July 2013.