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Virginia Tech Space Science Program Gets a Boost From VPT
VPT recently donated $15,000 to the Virginia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering (VT ECE) Department. In the photo, VPT's President Dr. Dan Sable presents the donation to Professor Scott Bailey in the Virginia Tech University Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Aeronomy.
Aluminium Structural Framing from Bosch Rexroth
Space elevator. It sounds like something from a science fiction novel, but in fact it is a very real structure proposed by very real scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts. Kevin Gingerich gives details of the task in hand and how Bosch Rexroth’s innovative technology is helping it become reality.
PC VUE monitors US wind farms
Iberdrola Renewables, the second-largest energy provider in North America has chosen PC VUE SCADA system to monitor it´s US wind farms, producing 3,600 megawatts of wind power over 35 independent power plants. Each of the 2479 wind turbine supplies about 300 to 350 data points, which equates to approximately 700,000 to 850,000 I/O data points on nearly two dozen servers.
Components From Traceparts Catalogs Are Used Everywhere, Even On The Planet Mars
The Mars rovers are incredibly resilient, considering the extreme environment the hardware experiences every day, said John Callas, Project Manger at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the NASA agency responsible for the mission. Together Spirit and Opportunity have driven more than 21 kilometres, climbed mountains, descended into craters and struggled through sand dunes.
Mel Parrish Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with STI Electronics
STI Electronics, Inc., a full service organization providing training, electronic and industrial distribution, consulting, laboratory analysis, prototyping, and small- to medium-volume PCB assembly, announces the 10-year anniversary of Mel Parrish. Mel was honored with a celebration and was awarded a travel certificate to be used for a cruise or a travel destination of his choice.
NASA selects Altium Designer as electronic design standard
Altium Limited, the developer of unified electronic product development solutions, has announced that NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) has chosen Altium Designer as its standard electronics design software. The Center’s Engineering Directorate will use Altium Designer as its electronics design standard on both manned and unmanned mission support. These include the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, as well as the Constel...
Omnetics opens new European sales office
Omnetics has opened a new European sales headquarters in Portsmouth, UK to support a growing market presence and increase penetration in markets such as mil/aero, medical, petrochemical, telecoms, instrumentation and other sectors that require highly rugged and reliable, yet miniature and innovative solutions.
Machined aluminium shell connectors for space connectors from ITT Interconnect Solutions
ITT Interconnect Solutions has developed a machined aluminium shell for its K128 and K134 space connectors which greatly reduces the possibility of misconnects during testing and final assembly, as well as offering substantial weight reductions of up to 15.4% over conventional brass shells. The connectors have optional polarization keys which ensure that similar pin layouts and genders can be differentiated easily from one another. Customers h...
Ultra-Fast Curing Epoxy is Certified to Meet NASA Low Outgassing Specifications
Master Bond EP65HT-1 combines high temperature resistance and fast room temperature curing in a NASA low outgassing approved epoxy. It also offers superior electrical insulation capabilities and strong chemical resistance.
Express Logic Has Record Year As ThreadX® RTOS Deployments Soar To Over 500 Million
Express Logic, Inc. today announced that the total number of product deployments using its popular ThreadX® RTOS now total in excess of 500 million units. Led by HP’s use of ThreadX in their line of inkjet and All-In-One printers and Broadcom and Marvel’s use of ThreadX in wireless networking SoCs, ThreadX has consistently ranked among the most widely deployed operating systems for embedded devices. Thanks to its royalty-free licensing model...