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Renewed interest in missions to explore other planets has created a need for new advanced heat shield systems that will protect spacecraft from the severe heating encountered during hypersonic flight through planetary atmospheres. Both reusable and ablative TPS have been developed to protect spacecraft. Typically, reusable TPS have been used for the Shuttle where the reentry conditions are relat ...

MILLITECH PROPOSES TO DESIGN A SENSOR TO BE USED FOR SATELLITE BORNE OBSERVATIONS OF PRECIPITATION, SEA SURFACE, AND ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS. THIS SENSOR WILL COMPRISE A COMMON APERTURE ANTENNA AND A GAUSSIAN OPTICS FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXER WHICH WILL BE USED WITH LOW NOISE RECEIVERS IN THE FUTURE. THE USER WILL BE ABLE TO SCAN IN TWO ORTHO-GONAL POLARIZATIONS OVER ONE DECADE OF FREQUENCY AT BOTH MICRO ...

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Multiscale Systems is an advanced materials and manufacturing firm commercializing mechanical metamaterial technology. Conventional materials have properties (strength, modulus, density, etc.) directly dependent on their molecular/chemical composition. In contrast, the properties of metamaterials are defined by their geometric and structural design. A common example in aerospace construction where ...

NASA's Vision for Space Exploration advocates a return to the moon and involves a plan of using the moon as a base of for missions to other planets. Early return missions to the moon will involve lunar exploration with robotic spacecrafts with instrumental payloads for scientific measurements of lunar surface features such as rocks, soil, and minerals. These instrument payloads will be helpful ...

NASA's Vision for Space Exploration advocates a return to the moon and involves a pl an of using the moon as a base of for missions to other planets. Early return missions to the moon will involve lunar exploration with robotic spacecrafts with instrumental payloads for scientific measurements of lunar surface features such as rocks, soil, and minerals. These instrument payloads will be helpf ...

For remote sensing of laser/lidar technology and global environment monitoring applications, the pulsed coherent Doppler lidars are of considerable contemporary interest as an effective tool. At present, the coherent 2-ƒÝm laser radar has been used to replaced CO2 gas laser (10.6-ƒÝm) for its higher spatial and velocity resolution. Considering the commercial 2 micron laser systems are complex ...

The innovation is a compact, UAV compatible, high-definition hyperspectral imaging system. The system concurrently-acquires a hyperspectral image using a compact grating imaging spectrometer and a much-higher spatial resolution color photographic image using a portable, measurement-grade, high-definition CCD camera (2,000 x 1,312 pixel). The spectral resolution of the hyperspectral image is better ...

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A critically important region of the electromagnetic spectrum is the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray band from 10 KeV to a few MeVs. In this band, a wealth of astrophysical processes occur in an even greater diversity of astrophysical objects and phenomena, both on a compact and diffuse scale. Surprisingly, for such a pivotal region of the spectrum, the high energy sky is still quite unexplored in that ...