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The use of AF-M315E as a monopropellant promises to greatly reduce the costs associated with the manufacturing, launching, and maintaining of satellites and other spacecraft. However, AF M315E has a higher surface tension than hydrazine and is harder to capture and move using existing propellant management devices (PMD) such as vanes or galleries. Lynntech proposes to develop an additively manufac ...

Liquid Rocket Engine (LRE) component manufacturing process by conventional processes are comprised of multi steps, components are fabricated by conventional machining from a forged or rolled billet/sheet. As a result a long lead time is needed and part acquisition time is high. So a low cost fabrication process is needed to replace current traditional processes. Low cost, rapid fabrication of this ...

Max-IR Labs LLC, in collaboration with UT Dallas, successfully demonstrated construction and operation of a prototype Infrared Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (IR-SNOM) instrument for high-spatial-resolution thermal mapping of small heat sources, in particular Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) facets, during Phase I.Preliminary data demonstrated feasibility of implementation of this instrument an ...

ENGIN-ICs objective in Phase II is to complete the design and layout of a < 2-dB noise figure, > 20-dB gain, and > 25-dBm OIP3 dual Ka-/Q-band LNA, requiring < 0.5 W DC power, and handling RF power levels to 1 W (requiring a GaAs Schottky diode limiter for GaAs HEMT processes, which ENGIN-IC will design, fabricate, and test), using two short gate length HEMT processes which can be space qualified. ...

Lynntech and Purdue University aims to rationally design effective retrofits for photovoltaic (PV) installations located in the Pacific Flyway migratory corridor, based on what birds actually perceive.Vision in birds is entirely unlike our own, and what might seem very similar to us can be different to a bird species.Variation amongst different birds is considerable--what is visible or obvious to ...

Green Revolution Cooling, an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of immersion cooling systems for high-efficiency, high-performance data centers, aims to produce a commercially viable, turnkey containerized data center cooling solution for cost-effective and expedited data center build. The continuation of work focuses on maturing the technology past the first two prototypes.

TRI Austin will develop an automated approach to translate full ultrasonic inspection datasets for detection and identification of disbonds and other defects within composite aerospace structures.In-service inspection data from Global Hawk structures will be used in an automated process for converting ultrasonic information into defect descriptions suitable for defect growth predictions and modeli ...

If the work proposed herein is successful, AFR/DOD would have two new next generation Firesets capable of significantly advancing the testing capabilities of current Firesets to support future hydrocode simulation/modeling of insensitive initiators/EFIs. The two Fireset Systems to be delivered as a result of the proposed Phase II SBIR would first include a refined System 1 design within the first ...

The Air Force desires a new methodology for automatically generating FRMs. This effort will continue the development of a physics-based software for rapidly producing FRMs that make physical sense and can be extended beyond their basis datasets. The development will transform the Phase I prototype software into a fully-automatic FRM generator capable of handling complex multi-mode problems. The pr ...

Manual ultrasonic inspection (UT) or eddy current inspection (ET) of complex aircraft structures often requires inspector interpretation of complex signals on a screen while at the same time performing manual manipulation of the inspection probe. This proposal provides a path to automated, real time assistance to inspectors while they perform these complex tasks. For this effort TRI Austin has tea ...