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CURRENTLY COMMERCIAL SPACE-LAUNCH FREQUENCY REQUIREMENTS ARE MET IN THE 2200- TO 2300-MHZ BAND. NEW FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS MAY LIMIT FREQUENCIES FOR COMMERCIAL SAFE AND RELIABLE COMMERCIAL SPACE-LAUNCH OPERATIONS TO THREE CHANNELS IN THE 2360- TO 2390-MHZ BAND. THIS RESEARCH WILL ASSESS WHETHER THIS ALLOCATION IS SUFFICIENT TO ENSURE CONTINUED SAFE AND RELIABLE COMMERCIAL SPACE-LAUNCH OPERATIONS. D ...

A low-cost, manufacturing technology is proposed to polish, defect-free, crystallographically perfect surfaces on all economically important semiconductor and optical materials. The technology is applicable to the high-volume production of a broad range of military and commercial components requiring surface accuracies between 0.3 and 0.006 microns. The feasibility to combine precision optical pol ...

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) signals, much like conventional spread spectrum waveforms, minimize intercepts from unintended receivers by generating negligible amounts of energy within the intercept receiver's acquisition bandwidth. Unlike spread spectrum, UWB spread bandwidth is generated directly, not by modulation with a spreading sequence. UWB is essentially a time-domain concept in which an extremely ...

Computer and communication technologies have advanced to a level where the large volumes of data required for "real time" cockpit information services can be gathered, transferred, processed and displayed to provide a commercially vaible environment/air traffic spacial relationships advisory service, on a continuous basis, to aircraft in flight. This proposal details the development of a plan that ...

Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC) proposes a miniature optical sensor that will be able to accurately measure angle of rotation. The Fiber Optic Rotation Mini-Sensor (FORMS) will also implement fiber optics in such a manner that the sensor will be EMI immune, and smaller than other currently available rotation sensors. The combination of accuracy, stability, reliability, and durability, a ...

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THIS PROPOSAL IS SUBMITTED JOINTLY BY DYNATHERM AND ITS AFFILIATE THERMACORE. A STUDY IS PROPOSED THAT WILL EVALUATE SEVERAL THERMAL CONTROL CONCEPTS FOR SMALL SATELLITES WITH A NOMINAL THERMAL DISSIPATION OF 1 KW. FIVE CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE PROPOSAL: DEPLOYABLE RADIATORS, THERMAL STORAGE, HEAT PUMPS, VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE HEAT PIPES AND INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL HEAT PIPES. EACH CONCEPT ...

THERE IS A GROWING REQUIREMENT TO REMOVE THE SOLDIER FROM THE HAZARDOUS BATTLEFIELD ENVIRONMENT AND REPLACE HIM WITH UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES. PURE TELEOPERATION REQUIRES CONSTANT OPERATOR ATTENTION DURING "MENIAL TASKS" SUCH AS DRIVING, WHICH ELIMINATES ANY OF THE POTENTIAL FORCE MULTIPLICATION AVAILABLE WITH SINGLE OPERATOR/ MULTI-VEHICLE CONTROL. CURRENTLY DARPA IS ACTIVELY DEVELOPING THE KEY T ...