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I² DC Servo Motor

Specialty Motors, Inc., Valencia, CA, announces its fully integrated I² DC Servo Motor is easily programmable to perform complex velocity and positioning movements within minutes. The all-in-one unit contains the brushless...

SlimStack™ SSB6 SMT Micro Connectors

Molex, Inc., Lisle, IL, announces the launch of its new SlimStack™ SSB6 SMT microminiature board-to-board connectors. With an ultra-low profile (0.35 mm pitch) and compact size (0.60 mm height x 2.00 mm...

CYCOLOY HCX1640 Resin

SABIC, Pittsfield, MA, unveils CYCOLOY polycarbonate/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (PC/ABS) high impact amorphous thermoplastic blends, which combine ease of processing with low-temperature ductility. With excellent...

Fineblanking Capabilities

Connecticut Spring & Stamping, Farmington, CT, announces that it has expanded its capabilities to include fineblanking, ideal for economically producing highly complex, ready-to-install multifunctional parts in...

Best-in-Class Technologies for High Performance, Compliant Mobile Medical Devices

Portable and wearable healthcare devices represent growing, high volume markets for the medtech industry. Patient monitors are evolving from stationary equipment...

Hospital-Grade Standards for Power Cords and Other Power System Components for Global Markets

While a number of countries have standards in regards to overall medical equipment, a few countries have related component requirements (e.g. plugs...

CAN FD Serial Trigger, Decode Solution

Teledyne LeCroy has added unique measurement and graphing capabilities to its CAN flexible data-rate (FD) serial trigger and decode solution. According to the company, the new CAN FD trigger and decode...

Precision Hall-Effect Angle Sensor ICs

Allegro MicroSystems’ new family of contactless Hall magnetic sensors—the A1332 and A1334 high-resolution 360° angle sensor ICs—are based on magnetic circular vertical Hall technology. The A1332...

Triaxial Angular Rate Sensor

The ARS3 PRO triaxial angular rate sensor from DTS (Diversified Technical Systems, Inc.) permits measuring the durability of a lever or capturing driveshaft speed in a manufacturing machine without the need for a...

Susan Draper, Materials Research Engineer, Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

Susan Draper performs microstructural analysis of metals and determines where fractures have occurred and propagated. Draper is currently characterizing...

Portable Planetariums Teach Science

NASA Technology By the mid-1990s, NASA was collecting an enormous amount of information about Earth and the universe. For example, the Earth Observing System, comprising a fleet of satellites, was gathering...

Electrical Monitoring Devices Save on Time and Cost

NASA Technology The sun requires no introduction. Earth orbits it; life happens because of it; we schedule our lives around its rhythmic risings and settings. Yet, despite its central...

Liquid Cooling Technology Increases Exercise Efficiency

NASA Technology The human body in space is as vulnerable as a fish out of water. Beyond a spacecraft’s protective environment, there is no oxygen to breathe and nothing to shield you...

Air Revitalization System Enables Excursions to the Stratosphere

NASA Technology In order to test a parachute system for surviving high-altitude bailouts, from 1959 to 1960 the US Air Force commenced Project Excelsior. It required Captain...

Shock Absorbers Save Structures and Lives during Earthquakes

NASA Technology In the early 1960s NASA tackled one of its greatest challenges: sending a man to the moon. The physical embodiment of that effort, the Apollo spacecraft, stood as a...

Software Facilitates Sharing of Water Quality Data Worldwide

NASA Technology Onboard the International Space Station, or ISS, very little goes to waste. One of the more glaring examples is the spacecraft’s water supply, which is reclaimed by...

Probes Measure Gases for Environmental Research

NASA Technology To understand climate change, we need to understand the movement of carbon, one of the planet’s most abundant resources and a building block of life that is endlessly being...

Remote Sensing Technologies Mitigate Drought

NASA Technology California is an agricultural powerhouse. In 2012, its 81,500 farms and ranches produced $42.6 billion in cash receipts, the most by any state. But that abundance is threatened by...

Laser Imaging Video Camera Sees through Fire, Fog, Smoke

NASA Technology In November 2012, Bob Foraker was strolling through the NASA Technology Days expo in Cleveland, Ohio. He was there to look for technology that might apply to the line of...

Bioreactor Yields Extracts for Skin Cream

NASA Technology Most scientists do not question whether the force of gravity will affect their experiments. On Earth, gravity is a constant. For NASA scientists studying the effects of microgravity on...

Sound Modeling Simplifies Vehicle Noise Management

NASA Technology Exposure to a noise level of 105 decibels causes hearing damage after an hour or less. Concertgoers in the front row at a rock show can expect sustained noise of about 120...

Algae-Derived Dietary Ingredients Nourish Animals

NASA Technology Algae-based food ingredients pioneered by NASA-sponsored research in the early 1980s revolutionized the infant formula industry a decade later and have subsequently appeared in a...

Software Cuts Building Costs, Increases Energy Efficiency

NASA Technology In order to prepare Curiosity for its trip to Mars, NASA had to pull out all the stops. Because the rover’s payload is 10 times as massive as those of earlier rovers,...

LEDs Illuminate Bulbs for Better Sleep, Wake Cycles

NASA Technology Kennedy Space Center has been known as America’s spaceport for more than 50 years. From Project Mercury to recent commercial-space missions, the nation has witnessed many...

Private Astronaut Training Prepares Commercial Crews of Tomorrow

NASA Technology In addition to teaching crewmembers to perform crucial tasks like using their spacecraft’s technical devices, piloting a vehicle back into Earth’s atmosphere,...

Schedule Analysis Software Saves Time for Project Planners

NASA Technology Schedules for major projects get long and complicated, involving a slew of interdependent tasks and timelines, and few organizations handle projects more complicated...

Ruggedized Spectrometers Are Built for Tough Jobs

NASA Technology Curiosity is the undisputed hot rod of planetary rovers. Nine-and-a-half feet long, nearly 2,000 pounds, and powered by a thermo-nuclear power generator under its “hood,”...

Gas Conversion Systems Reclaim Fuel for Industry

NASA Technology To understand the connection between the development of Martian power systems and technology that can pull oil from old wells or capture gases released during drilling, it helps...

Activity Monitors Help Users Get Optimum Sun Exposure

NASA Technology To the casual observer, the sun appears as a steady, static, glowing ball of heat. But closer inspection reveals our closest star can be rambunctious, capable of emitting...