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In a communication system, transmission lines are usually the most common failure point. Cables and antennas are constantly exposed to the elements and they degrade over time. Mix in poorly tightened connectors or seals, and intermittent outages all the way to utter failure could be the result. Agilent Technologies [NYSE: A] to the rescue.
Read MoreTesting… testing… electrical power system, attitude determination and control system, telemetry, tracking and command and navigation payload… wow, they’re all working as they should and have been integrated properly into the satellite. That’s the word from the Global Positioning Wing who has successfully passed the Initial Integrated System Test on the first GPS Block IIF satellite at the Boeing Spacecraft Development Center in El Segundo, California.
Read MoreIntellectual Property Cores (IP cores) are blocks of logic or data used in creating a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a product. These wee components should be entirely portable in that they should be easy to insert into any vendor technology or design methodology.
Read MoreClass K certification – no, this is not a substitute classification for a high school diploma, nor is it a special group of marathon runners… Class K certification is the highest reliability level prescribed by MIL-PRF-38534.
Read MoreNamed after Semyon Lavochkin who was this company’s head designer, NPO Lavochkin is a Russian satellite manufacturer who also engaged in aeronautical design and engineering and manufactures the Fregat space booster. The Russians have used this spacecraft as their landing stage for lunar missions such as Luna-16, as the braking stage to place Fobos-2 into orbit around Mars, and as an escape stage to launch units into interplanetary trajectories, such as the Venus and Mars Express probes.
Read MoreOne of the chores the crew of the Endeavour during the STS-118 mission was to deliver a variety of hardware components to the International Space Station (ISS). In fact, Boeing produced more than 740 light hardware components that include the Starboard 5 (SS) truss element. This component will increase the available power to the various systems aboard the ISS.
Read MoreSANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA: August 21, 2007—Satnews Daily--Telairity, Inc., will be positioned to reveal their line of HD and SD video compression systems for the global marketplace. Being introduced to the worldwide market is the Telairity BE7400 Standard Definition Broadcast Encoder.
Read MoreBEIJING, CHINA: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—For use on a new Chinese satellite is a number of product units from Newtec.
Read MoreBEIJING, CHINA: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—For use on a new Chinese satellite is a number of product units from Newtec.
Read MoreDAYTON, OHIO: August 20, 2007—Satnews Daily—Hang on for a slew of acronyms… Increment 2 In-Process Review (IPR-2); Integrated overhead Non-Imaging Infrared (ONIR); Tasking, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TPED) Systems (IOTS)—phew, what a mouthful!
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