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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Rad-Hard, Single-Board Computer for Space Avionics Introduced by Aitech The 3U CompactPCI 1 GHz rad-hard embedded computer is an enhanced version of the Aitech space-flown S950 single-board computer with increased processing power and data throughput.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale |
Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John McHale |
`Fly me to the moon...' and the Space Station, too Designers of Orion, the next manned space vehicle from NASA that will service the International Space Station and return man to the moon, are using open-architecture designs for the avionics and crew cockpit.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 |
Radiation-tolerant 3U CompactPCI single-board computer for space Aitech Defense Systems Inc. is offering a radiation-tolerant, single-slot 3U Compact PCI single-board computer for manned and robotic space vehicles that must operate in radiation environments.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Aitech Introduces C108 Rugged 6U VME Single-Board Computer for New and Legacy Applications The C108 provides numerous I/O capabilities for military embedded applications such as mission management computers, heads-up display controllers, and radar and sonar processors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
SATA-Based Computer Boards in 3U CompactPCI Form Factor for Rugged Systems Introduced by Aitech Aitech Defense Systems is introducing single-slot 3U CompactPCI computer boards for rugged systems that offer as much as eight gigabytes of on board SATA flash disk storage.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
Orbital Express system employs AiTech Defense Systems' computers, PCI boards Representatives of Aitech Defense Systems reported that the company's computers and PCI boards are at work aboard the Orbital Express system, supporting an on-orbit demonstration led by the DARPA.  |
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Honeywell Engineers Design COTS Hardware Into Orion Advanced Avionics Ray Crum, technical director of the NASA Orion space program at Honeywell Aerospace, discusses integrating commercial electronics into the Orion spacecraft crew exploration vehicle.  |
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Industry Veterans Advance SBC Technologies for Aerospace Applications Embedded computing companies such as General Micro Systems and Aitech Defense Systems continue to design and develop single-board computers (SBCs) with an eye toward aerospace environments and applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
ASRC Aerospace Works with NASA on Constellation Future Spacecraft Systems Engineers at ASRC Aerospace are working with NASA officials to design ground support equipment and systems for NASA's Constellation Program to build new manned spacecraft.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
New Products From the Show New products announced at the 2004 Military & Aeropspace Electronics Show: 3U conduction-cooled CompactPCI single-board computer... Multimedia PMC graphics board... IEEE-1394a&b/FireWire VME board... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Avionics Computers for Navy Combat Jets Come From General Dynamics in $30.6 Million Contract Avionics computer systems designers will provide the U.S. Navy with 118 Type 3 advanced mission computers for carrier-based F/A-18 and E/A-18G jet fighter-bomber and electronic warfare aircraft  |
Popular Mechanics November 2, 2009 Rand Simberg |
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis There is a bigger concern; one not previously discussed publicly in a program that has had several as-yet-unresolved technical concerns in its four-year history.  |
Popular Mechanics November 18, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 |
SprayCool Offers 3U Rackmount Chassis with Liquid Cooling for Avionics and Vetronics The 3U rugged enclosure is designed for armored vehicle vetronics, and aircraft avionics that require small, lightweight, low-power, and low-cost military embedded aerospace electronics.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John McHale |
Aitech Brings COTS to Space Leaders at Aitech Defense Systems Inc. are bringing the economic strategy that changed military procurement to the space market.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.  |
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009 |
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles  |
Popular Mechanics February 2009 |
NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.  |
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 |
Aitech Introduces Rugged VME Single-Board Computer for Military Applications Aitech Defense Systems is introducing the C160 rugged 6U VME single-board computer for harsh-environment, military embedded systems, such as radar and sonar and military communications processors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller |
Trends in microprocessors: high-end military embedded applications are beginning a shift to Intel When it comes to military embedded computing, basically only two microprocessor manufacturers slug it out for the lion's share of the defense and aerospace embedded computer market -- Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in Austin, Texas, and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 |
Dilemma: Databus or switched fabric? Board designers today face a new performance bottleneck: modern processors are so fast that traditional parallel databuses cannot keep them adequately supplied with data to take advantage of their blazing speed.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Intel Atom-Based Rugged Computer Remote-Control Unit From Aitech Dissipates 22 Watts of Heat Aitech Defense Systems is introducing its latest version of the NightHawk RCU, an Intel Atom-based rugged computer remote-control unit for unmanned vehicles, armored vehicles, and aircraft.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 |
Rugged VME64x-compliant single-board computers Aitech Defense Systems adds two boards to its rugged VME64x-compliant C10x single-board computer family.  |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Products Telepresence tactile feedback system... Actuators for unmanned-aerial-vehicle applications... Rugged COTS airborne computer with 3U CompactPCI cards... VME single-board embedded computer... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg |
The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Advanced Vetronics: Hit the Ground Running Industry heeds the warfighter's call for innovative, responsive, and reliable electronics in combat vehicles on the ground.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Rugged FPGA for Aerospace and Military Embedded Systems Introduced by Xilinx The Virtex-5Q family of field-programmable gate arrays is for aerospace and military embedded systems involving secure military communications, electronic warfare, aircraft avionics and vetronics, radar technology, and missiles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale |
Making it rad-hard takes time Designers of radiation-hardened military and aerospace electronics and electro-optics systems are continually looking for ways to keep power down, cut the long development cycles, and still maintain performance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John McHale |
Fiber-Optic Avionics Connectors Show Performance Advantages for Avionics Systems A steady aerospace and defense market combined with the performance advantages of fiber over copper has designers of optical avionics connectors confident in the short- and long-term future.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
GE Fanuc offers 3U CompactPCI single-board computer and multifunction PMC card GE Fanuc Embedded Systems announced the IMPCC2 3U CompactPCI single-board computer and Multifunction PMC Carrier Card for defense and aerospace applications that are constrained by space, weight, and power.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale |
Advanced I/O Means Ethernet Military designers are excited about the I/O capabilities that 10-Gigabit Ethernet promises to bring to the table.  |
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Ballard Technology releases avionics box The DO-160 validated product is a small, lightweight embedded computer with built-in interfaces for standard peripherals and for various avionics databuses.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller |
Aerospace and Defense Remains One of the Few Bright Spots for the Embedded Computing Industry Many VME military embedded systems vendors posted gains in what was probably the toughest year in the history of the VMEbus industry.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 |
Military & Aerospace Electronics Acquires Avionics Conference and Exhibition Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine and its parent company PennWell have purchased the Avionics conference and exhibition, and will operate the Avionics conference next March in Amsterdam.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 |
Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2008 |
Sky Computers introduces LightningBolt embedded computer The LightningBolt embedded computer that offers scalability, reliability, and price/performance for demanding military and aerospace applications.  |
Popular Mechanics January 29, 2010 David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released.  |
Popular Mechanics January 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
NASA Renegades Pitch Obama Team New Post-Shuttle Plan During a morning meeting at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. with Obama administration transition team members, a handful of advocates today pitched an idea to scrap NASA's existing post-shuttle plan.  |
Popular Mechanics April 23, 2008 Rand Simberg |
How Clinton, Obama and McCain Could Change U.S. Space Policy: Geek the Vote Guest Analysis What are the chances that a President McCain, Clinton or Obama will support NASA's plan as is? Here's a closer look.  |
Popular Mechanics October 27, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Critics and Proponents Wait Out NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Delay Severe winds and bad weather delayed NASA's first Ares 1-X rocket test today. The launch, which will culminate in a 6-minute flight to test the new hardware, will pick up again tomorrow at 8 am.  |