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Products: Electronics & Computers
Small-Form-Factor SDR Platform for Development and Optimization of Radio Designs
Xilinx (San Jose, CA) offers a Small Form Factor (SFF) Software Defined Radio (SDR) development platform allowing OEMs to develop and optimize their radio designs for low power operation. The RF-to-baseband platform provides the hardware, operating software, and...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The Ethersmart Wildcard™, an expansion module from Mosaic Industries (Newark, CA), enables Web connectivity to the company's embedded controllers and operator...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Kontron America (Poway, CA) has released four AdvancedMC modules that will facilitate the security, processing, I/O, and storage configurations of pre-integrated open...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) offers three tools for IEEE 802.15.4 wireless networking. The MRF24J40 is a 2.4-GHz IEEE 802.15.4 transceiver targeted for the...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Fairchild Semiconductor (South Portland, ME) has introduced the FSB50325S (250V), the FSB50250S (500V), and the FSB50450S (500V) Motion-SPM™ devices available in 29 × 12-mm...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Boston Micromachines, a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror products for adaptive optics systems, is developing a deformable mirror that will aid NASA in the search for extra-solar...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Performance Technologies (Rochester, NY) has expanded its family of communication platforms with the PCE385, a quad T1/E1/J1 PCI Express telecom adapter. The device is enabled with NexusWare...
Application Briefs: Research Lab
NASA Institute Studies and Identifies Martian Land Formations
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston is part of the Universities Space Research Association, and is a NASAfunded institute that conducts research in the lunar, planetary, and terrestrial sciences on behalf of university science departments and NASA. The most recent project...
Articles: Software
The Problems With CAD Tools: Vendors Address User Pain Points
CAD systems can be a design engineer’s best friend or their worst enemy. They help engineers create better products faster, but can prove daunting and frustrating in the process.We spoke to executives at several CAD companies to find out how they are helping their customers get past...
Tech Needs
Eliminate Color Fading in Washable Cotton Garments
Cotton garments, especially dark-colored garments, lose their initial color through repeated washings and exposure to sunlight. Needed is a new technology or technology system that will give cotton garments improved color fastness, but which does not depend just on using a more expensive dye with...
Tech Needs
Frizzy Hair Control
Materials and compounded products are sought that, when deposited on hair from a leave-on or rinse-off conditioner, will control frizzy hair and leave a positive feel to the hair. Any solution must be non-toxic and safe for use by children. It should neither produce environmental difficulties in its use or manufacture, nor...
NASA Spinoff
Spinoff 2006
Ingestible Thermometer Pill Aids Athletes in Beating the Heat
Space-Proven Medical Monitor: The Total Patient-Care Package
From Planetary Imaging to Enzyme Screening
Transportation
Damage-Tolerant Fan Casings for Jet Engines
Steering Aircraft Clear of Choppy Air
Advanced Air Data Systems for Commercial Aircraft
NASA Helps...
NASA Spinoff: Materials
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA has long been known for having developed the thin, shiny reflective material used to insulate everything from the Hubble Space Telescope to hikers,...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker exporting millions of gallons of oil, ran aground just after midnight on March 24, 1989 in Alaska, creating what is, to...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Soil, water, and light. According to prevailing dogma, these are the three main ingredients for growing and maintaining healthy plants. But what if you...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In order to better understand our solar system and the ways it supports life, scientists and researchers at NASA study the planets. Of course, one of the...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
A solar cell is a semiconductor device that converts photons, or light, into electricity. The most widely used solar cells today are made from...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In 1984, NASA initiated the Gravity Probe B (GP-B) program to test two unverified predictions of Albert Einstein's theory of general...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA's Metrics Data Program Data Repository is a database that stores problem, product, and metrics data. The primary goal of this data...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Preparing a vehicle and its payload for a single launch is a complex process that involves thousands of operations. Because the equipment and facilities required...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA missions are extremely complex and prone to sudden, catastrophic failure if equipment falters or if an unforeseen event occurs. For these reasons, NASA trains to...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite navigation system developed and maintained by the U.S. Government. Though initially designed for...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Faster than most speedy computers. More powerful than its NASA data-processing predecessors. Able to leap large, mission-related computational problems in a single...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Cryogenics, the science of generating extremely low temperatures, has wide applicability throughout NASA. The Agency employs cryogenics for...
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
With retirement of the space shuttle imminent, and the commercial space industry burgeoning, NASA is searching for safe and innovative methods...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The environment of space presents scientists and engineers with the challenges of a harsh, unforgiving laboratory in which to conduct their scientific...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
NASA’s Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology (UEET) program was formed in 1999 at Glenn Research Center to manage an important national propulsion program...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Glenn Research Center has combined state-of-the-art electrical designs with complex, computer-aided analyses to develop some of today’s most advanced power...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Each space shuttle orbiter has 38 Primary Reaction Control System (PRCS) thrusters to help power and position the vehicle for maneuvers in space,...
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.