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STI Electronics announces that it has been awarded a Global Technology Award in the category of Components for its Micro-Coil Spring Array. The award was presented to the company during a Tuesday, November 15, 2011 ceremony that took place at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany during Productronica 2011.

STI Electronics, Inc. will feature its key products and services in Booth #2921 at the upcoming IPC APEX Expo, scheduled to take place February 28 - March 1, 2012 at the San Diego Convention Center in California. STI’s Engineering Services Department will feature its IC/DT services. STI’s Engineering Services division is a multifaceted technical organization that provides engineering support in the field of electronics manufacturing. From pro...

STI Electronics, Inc. has appointed Julio A. Estrada as its newest Instructor for the TX, OK, AR area. “It is easy to see why Mr. Estrada found his true calling as a trainer. He has a great passion to help people understand the government and industry standards. Julio will be a significant addition to the STI training staff,” commented David Raby, President/CEO. “Additionally, he is bilingual and will allow STI to better serve its Hispanic ...

Wireless communication specialist Radiometrix has supplied two custom radio transceivers to Idaho State University for its Research Involving Student Engineers (RISE) program. The London-based company supplied the pair of customised UHX1 multi-channel radio transceivers tuned to a special VHF frequency (147MHz) with US distributor, Lemos International.

Tekdata Interconnections has been awarded a major contract from Northrop Grumman to provide wiring harnesses for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program. Tekdata will provide technical expertise and build the high-specification cryogenic wiring harnesses that will connect parts of the JWST in orbit.

The challenge is to build machines that can help humans work in, and explore space. Working side by side with humans, or operating where the risks are too great for people, machines like Robonaut - a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA - will expand our ability for construction and discovery. The Robonaut project has adopted the design concept of an ant...

Hypertronics Corporation, Hypertac's business unit in North America, has announced that NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has approved the Hypertac 2mm cPCI connector for flight use. The Hypertac hyperboloid connector improves system reliability by ensuring signal integrity whilst eliminating contact fretting under the most severe shock and vibration environments.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA’s next-generation successor to the Hubble, has passed a crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the help of National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) LabVIEW FPGA. An important element of the JWST is the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), which is equipped with more than 250,000 microshutters designed to observe thousands of distant galaxies to better understand the origins of the universe. These m...

Tekdata Interconnections' Cryoconnect Division has completed delivery of bespoke flight harnesses for the Alpha Mass Spectrometer, a space-research instrument due to be launched to the International Space Station aboard one of the last ever NASA Space Shuttle missions in July 2010.

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced it has shipped its 10,000th radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGA device for flight-critical applications. Microsemi has also shipped tens of thousands of its previous generation spaceflight FPGAs.