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Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010 |
DC-DC Converter Power Electronics Module Introduced by VPT for Avionics and Military Power Applications VPT is introducing the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VPT100+ 2800 DC-DC converter military power supply module for military applications, and other high-power electronics systems.   |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004
Ben Ames |
Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield. |
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NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2006 |
COTS military and avionics DC-DC converters The MTC noncustom converter is available in 5-, 15-, and 35-watt ratings. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2007 |
10-amp point-of-load power converter Slightly larger than one square inch, the DVPL0510S delivers as much as 10 amps (33 Watts) of high current for a low-voltage output of 0.8 to 3.4 volts, with up to 96 percent efficiency. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2005
Ben Ames |
Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005
Powers & Penglase |
Using DC-DC Converters in Mobile-Based Ground Equipment As designers incorporate increasing amounts of sophisticated electronics into industrial and military vehicle-based applications, high-density DC-DC converters have evolved to keep pace. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005 |
MOSFET Chip Set Enables Efficient 336-Watt Converters International Rectifier is offering the DirectFET chipset that makes the most of DC bus-converter efficiency when used with the company's IR2086S full-bridge bus-converter integrated circuit. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
DC-DC converter module market could reach $5.4 billion by 2010 Several trends are driving the growth of the worldwide market for DC-DC converter modules, which is expected to see a compound annual growth rate of 10.5 from 2005 to 2010. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2006 |
NASA records space data with Coraid system The SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage appliance is providing a storage system to back up critical data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory program. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
New Products Fixed-Carbon-Composition Resistor... Miniature 40/60-Watt Power Supply... Three-Phase and Neutral EMC Filter... PolySwitch to Prevent Damage to Control Boards... Low Profile Switching Power Supplies... 150-Volt Rectifiers... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009 |
International Rectifier Introduces Rugged Power ICs for Automotive Applications The AUIRS4427S is a dual low-side driver power integrated circuit (IC) for low-, mid-, and high-voltage rugged power control automotive applications, such as motor drives, automotive DC-DC converters, or hybrid power train drives. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2009 |
DC-DC Converter Power Supply for Aerospace and Battery Power Applications Introduced by Murata Murata Power Solutions is introducing the UWE-5/15-Q48N-C and the UWE-15/5-Q12P-C eighth-brick, 4:1 ultra-wide input isolated DC-DC converter power supply. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
Harmonic attenuator module to enhance power-conversion systems Vicor Corp. is offering the VI-HAM high-boost harmonic attenuator module. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2007 |
DC-DC Converter Merchant Market Growth Strong Worldwide Worldwide shipments of DC-DC converters for the merchant market continue to grow, according to a study. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Damian Joseph |
What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008 |
North Atlantic Introduces CompactPCI DC-DC Converter for Military Applications North Atlantic Industries is offering the 55LQ2 high-power-density, low-profile, single card slot, CompactPCI DC-DC converter that provides as much as 100 watts of output power at full load. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008
John Keller |
A-D Converter Designers Stress Speed, Clean Signals, and Low Power Consumption Among the most critical components in any military and aerospace optical or RF system is the analog-to-digital (A-D) converter and digital-to-analog (D-A) converter. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
November 2009 |
Mil-Spec DC-DC Converter for Military Power Electronics Introduced by NAI North Atlantic Industries (NAI) is introducing a mil-spec 3U CompactPCI (cPCI) DC-DC converter, the 55MQ2, for military avionics, airborne, shipboard electronics, and ground applications. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Todd Hoeksema: A Flare for All Things Solar The researcher at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University in California helped NASA create a new "roadmap" for future solar physics research. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2007 |
Vicor Expands Family of Mid-Power 24-Volt Mini Power Modules Vicor is adding nine mid-power mini DC-DC converters to the 24-volt DC-input family. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Samuel K. Moore |
New Class of Digital Signal Processor Wipes Out Wasted Power Hearing aids, power converters, medical implants, and telecommunications could benefit from continuous-time digital signal processing |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2013
Jean Kumagai |
Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007 |
Vicor Expands Family of 300-Volt Input Mini Modules The Brick Business Unit of Vicor Corp. announced the addition of nine mid-power Mini DC-DC converters to the 300-volt DC input family. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006 |
Mid-Power 24-Volt Maxi Modules Vicor Corp. added eight mid-power Maxi DC-DC converters to the company's 24 volts DC input family. The modules are appropriate for defense, aerospace, communications, industrial or process control, distributed power, medical, and ATE applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2004 |
New Products Digitizer cards with proprietary data-conversion ICs... Family of flat-panel-display kiosk monitors... Java 2 micro addition for OSE real-time operating system... DC-DC converters for military and aerospace applications... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2006 |
Mid-Power 48 Vin Micro Modules Vicor Corp. is adding six mid-power Micro-DC-to-DC converters to the 48 volts DC input family: a 50-watt model at 3.3 volt and 75-watt models at 12, 15, 24, 28, and 48 volts. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009 |
Analog Devices Introduces Level-Translating A-D Converter Driver Digital signal processing specialist Analog Devices is introducing the AD8275 level-translating analog-to-digital (A-D) converter driver, which simplifies signal conditioning for high-voltage industrial and instrumentation designs. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2008 |
Falcon Electric Introduces Lightweight Frequency and Phase Converters These frequency and phase converters provide reliable computer-grade power for sensitive equipment. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2007 |
450-Watt DC-DC Converters for Wireless RF Amplifiers Lambda is launching a series of 450-watt board-mount DC-DC modules for next-generation RF power amplifiers in wireless base stations, mobile communications systems, and cell repeaters. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2005
John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Peter Fairley |
Germany Takes the Lead in HVDC New developments in high-voltage DC electronics could herald an epic shift in energy delivery |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010
John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2005 |
New Products High-power lasers for safety systems... Panel-mounted connector with water and dust protection... PC-compatible VMEbus single-board computers... Quarter-brick high-performance DC-DC converters... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Bulkhead Media Converters for Harsh-Environment Applications Stratos Lightwave is offering a family of bulkhead media converters designed for rugged deployment on military transit cases or communications vehicles. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Margaret Anne Baker |
NASA Science: The Sick Man of Federal Research A key contributor to the Ottoman Empire's downfall was its leaders' resistance to changes and reform. The NRC report provides broad recommendations that NASA can follow to improve this disparity. Let's hope that the leaders of NASA remember their world history classes. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Risk Aversion and NASA Don't Mix: Augustine Report Analysis We now know the options that the Augustine panel is going to present to the administration for the future of NASA human spaceflight, because the summary was released on Tuesday. |
Popular Mechanics
May 26, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface? |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
Popular Mechanics
January 2008
Erik Sofge |
Space-Based Solar Power Beams Become Next Energy Frontier The idea of using satellites to beam solar power down from space is nothing new, but cost has limited it from coming to fruition. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer. |
Popular Mechanics
May 12, 2008
Michael Milstein |
NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost. |
