Aerospace & Defence
Field trial with over 100 military vehicles tests RFID technology
NXP Semiconductors and Tönnjes and Kirpestein B.V. have, after 12 months of testing in various weather conditions, with over 100 assorted military vehicles and at different speeds, presented the results of the first field trial with IDePLATEs (license plates). The field trial confirmed the secure, robust, effective, and reliable use of RFID technology for vehicle identification.
Jupiter probe arrives intact & starts sending data
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The first high-resolution images of the gas giant Jupiter are still a few weeks away.
Future UAVs could be 'grown' in large-scale labs
Ahead of this years' Farnborough International Airshow, engineers and scientists at BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow outlined their thinking about military aircraft and how they might be designed and manufactured in the future.
Smaller satellites could improve reflected energy estimates
A team of small, shoebox-sized satellites, flying in formation around the Earth, could estimate the planet’s reflected energy with twice the accuracy of traditional monolith satellites, according to an MIT-led study published online in Acta Astronautica. If done right, such satellite swarms could also be cheaper to build, launch and maintain.
Rad tolerant in amp integrates differential ADC driver
Intersil has announced what it claims to be the industry’s first radiation tolerant 36V in-amp (instrumentation amplifier) featuring an integrated differential ADC driver. The high performance ISL70617SEH differential input, rail-to-rail output in-amp delivers the industry’s highest signal processing performance for low-level sensor telemetry data critical to communication satellites.
Handling high bandwidth data processing requirements
Offering low power and high performance, the new rugged 3U VPX-based C912 from Aitech Defense Systems, combines NXP’s latest generation T4 series of QorIQ SoC multi-core e6500 processors along with a range of on-board I/O features.
The space industry's first DDR memory linear regulator
Texas Instruments has introduced the industry's first DDR memory linear regulator for space applications. The TPS7H3301-SP is the only DDR regulator immune to single-event effects up to 65 megaelectron volts per centimetre squared (MeV-cm2), powering space-satellite payloads including SBCs, solid-state recorders and other memory applications.
New demonstration for aerospace and defence industry
Event vehicles at the Farnborough International Airshow will be fitted with connected devices in field trial of real-time outdoor asset management solution.
Series of capacitors achieve CV values in high temp
A new series of axial leaded, hermetically sealed wet electrolytic tantalum capacitors has been released by AVX, that achieve supercapacitor CV values in high temperature environments up to 125°C.
Optimising ship’s engines with virtual sensors
An ETH spin-off, Vir2sense, specialises in the development of virtual testbeds designed to optimise the performance of marine diesel engines. The young entrepreneurs, Christophe Barro and Panagiotis Kyrtatos, hope to sell their product to big shipping companies. In the world of global shipping, deep-sea vessels are the industry’s workhorses, tirelessly transporting goods across the main maritime routes.