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This project aims to develop nonpermeable thin-guage carbon tubing with an integral radial carbon fiber brush on its outer surface for enhanced heat transfer. The carbon tubing is derived from polyimide tubing. The radial fiber structure is created by electrostatic flocking. Coatings to block hydrogen permeation and to prtotect against erosion are applied by chemical vapor deposition. The proposed ...

Problem: All of the currently defined Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) are faced with obsolescence. The 1750A has fallen behind in the areas of performance and amount of addressable memory. Newer processor meet today's requirements but have no clear path for avoiding obsolescence in the future and necessitate the abondonment of the existing support software base. Objective: Develop an ISA that ...

Development of an Inertia Measuring Unit (IMD) to be packaged in a strapdown Inertial Navigation System (INS) is proposed. The IMU design is based upon the silicon accelerometers developed by Waddan Systems. A pair of these devices, mounted on inclined webs in a hollow cylindrical rotor with their input axes pointing in the diametrically opposite directions at an angle, can be employed to determin ...

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Reducing the dynamic response of spacecraft during launch will have a number of benefits in their design, test, and operations phases and will allow mission performance, rather than launch survivability, to be the primary goal of structural design. This SBIR proposes to integrate an isolation system into the interface adaptor between the launch vehicle and the spacecraft. Besides the increase in l ...

Microcosm proposes to undertake technical evaluation of a launch vehicle concept capable of reducing near-term launch costs by a factor of 10. Phase I will determine the government requirements which can be met by the proposed vehicle and conduct a formal review of a specific point design and the methods employed to hold down cost. Phase I will result in an overall requirements definition, a point ...

This proposal describes a program to develop a system to measure the spatial distribution of droplet size, liquid water content, and the droplet velocity in engine test cells. The twelve foot duct diameter rules out most light scattering and imaging techniques. The liquid water content of up to 5.6 g/m3 dictates that the probe volume must be no larger than about 10E8 micron3 resulting in a narrow ...

The overall goal of this program is the development of tools for rapid synthesis of common classes of electronic systems. DQDT's approach is to create generators which synthesize application specific VHDL descriptions of systems from high-level specifications. These generators can then leverage readily available and constantly improving VHDL based CAD tools for simulation, gate level synthesis, an ...