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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Water-filled containers are used as building blocks in a new generation of containment systems for testing high-speed flywheels. Such containment systems are needed to ensure safety by...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Liekki Application Designer v3.0 from Liekki (Way Gambrills, MD) is a simulation and design software environment for fiber lasers and amplifiers with new transient analysis capability. Liekki’s v3.0 provide the...
Products: Photonics/Optics
JAI’s (San Jose, CA) CV-A436 machine vision camera uses the latest generation of VGA resolution progressive scan 1⁄3-in. imager that allows the compact head size of 17 mm (diameter) and 46 mm (length). The head is...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fuel Cells Utilizing Oxygen From Air at Low Pressures
A fuel cell stack has been developed to supply power for a high-altitude aircraft with a minimum of air handling. The fuel cell is capable of utilizing oxygen from ambient air at low pressure with no need for compression. For such an application, it is advantageous to take oxygen from the air...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Hybrid Ion-Detector/Data-Acquisition System for a TOF-MS
A modified ion-detector/ data-acquisition system has been devised to increase the dynamic range of a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) that, previously, included a microchannel-plate detector and a data-acquisition system based on counting pulses and time-tagging them by use of a...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Spontaneous-Desorption Ionizer for a TOF-MS
A time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) like the one mentioned in the immediately preceding article has been retrofitted with an ionizer based on a surface spontaneous- desorption process. This ionizer includes an electron multiplier in the form of a microchannel plate (MCP). Relative to an ionizer...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
When acquiring low-data-rate signals such as temperature, engineers sometimes forget that low-data-rate sampling does not guarantee an uncontaminated recording. Regardless of the sample...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturing Precise, Lightweight Paraboloidal Mirrors
A process for fabricating a precise, diffraction- limited, ultralightweight, composite-material (matrix/fiber) paraboloidal telescope mirror has been devised. Unlike the traditional process of fabrication of heavier glass-based mirrors, this process involves a minimum of manual steps and...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automated Solvent Seaming of Large Polyimide Membranes
A solvent-based welding process enables the joining of precise, cast polyimide membranes at their edges to form larger precise membranes. The process creates a homogeneous, optical - quality seam between abutting membranes, with no overlap and with only a very localized area of figure...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
It is well past quitting time, but you are still stuck in the office. Your spouse left work over an hour ago, but is caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic. As a...
NASA Spinoff: Nanotechnology
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Since its dawning days, NASA has been at the forefront of developing and improving materials for aerospace applications. In particular, NASA requires...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Scientists at NASA's Glenn Research Center developed a high-temperature, solid lubricant coating material that is saving the manufacturing industry millions of dollars....
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Astronauts cannot live on dehydrated ice cream alone. Like everyone else, they need their vegetables. Enter VEGGIE, the Deployable Vegetable System, currently...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
This story begins in the 1970s, when Dr. Joseph Heyman, a young scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, was asked to support the...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
By the end of the 1990s, the optical fiber backbone of the telecommunication and data-communication networks had evolved from megabits-per-second transmission...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Piezoelectric materials convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and electrical energy into mechanical energy. They generate electrical charges in response...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The space-age materials that NASA employs in its spacecraft and satellites have different attributes than the building materials that can work for...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/ NASA Contribution
Many people will be sad to see the Hubble Space Telescope go, as it was the first instrument of its kind to provide us with such a wealth of imagery and information...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/ NASA Contribution
Scientists at NASA's Kennedy Space Center work in cleanrooms: laboratories with high degrees of cleanliness provided by strict control of particles such...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The most recognized and widely used NASA spinoff is at it again. Temper foam, whose origins date back to 1966 when it was developed to absorb shock and,...
NASA Spinoff: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Creating long-duration, high-powered lasers, for satellites, that can withstand the type of optical misalignment and damage dished out by the unforgiving environment of...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In the mid-1950s, a young U.S. Air Force engineer named Clark Beck began work with what is now one of NASA's most prolific spinoffs, the radiant barrier...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Every angler has his secrets, whether it be an old family recipe for stink bait, a midnight worm-hunting ritual, or the most coveted of all, the no-fail fishing hole. Most of...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
On July 20, 1969, millions were glued to their television sets when NASA astronaut Neil...
NASA Spinoff
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
In the 1990s, NASA pioneered virtual reality research. The concept was present long before, but, prior to this, the technology did not exist to make a...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While the most common photographs of Earth taken from space show the planet covered in blue water, NASA has managed to produce detailed color images, using...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) are chemical compounds that can contaminate soil and groundwater to the point of irreparability. These...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
The Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) Alliance was created in 1994 and operated for 9 years as a NASA-sponsored coalition of 28 members from...
NASA Spinoff: Green Design & Manufacturing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Each day, we read about mounting global concerns regarding the ability to sustain supplies of clean water and to reduce air contamination. With water and air...
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