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During Phase II of this SBIR, Syncroness will design, develop and field a 104' long, 4' diameter modular vacuum chamber with an appropriate vacuum system and pressure region barriers to allow a 9" monorail sled to ascend and descend an altitude range from 4300' to 100000'. Technologies required to field this system will be tested and validated including vaporizing pressure barriers, advanced seal ...

The simplicity of a solar thermal propulsion system offers promise of very low cost compared to advanced cryogenic stages for earth orbit missions. Integrated solar thermal propulsion and power technology has evolved significantly over the past two decades through the combined efforts of the Air Force, NASA, and the aerospace industry. This technology is capable of offering 2-10 times the efficien ...

We will provide convenient and accurate time-domain modeling capabilities for electromagnetics (EM) in dielectric media with regions having oblique boundary conditions, specifically for devices exhibiting omnidirectional reflectivity. Omnidirectional reflectors, constructed with layers of dielectrics, reflect electromagnetic radiation with 100% efficiency for all incident angles and polarizations ...

Many important aspects of Departmant of Defense (DoD) research involve systems where plasmas interact in a complex way with neutral gas, intense lasers, or other plasma species. Two reasons such complex plasma systems are difficult to simulate: (i) the orders of magnitude difference in, for examle, the plasma Debye length and the neutral mean free path or the size of the laser target, and (ii) th ...

The Direct Digital Phase Noise Measurement Phase 1 SBIR demonstrated the feasibility of the technology to make the measurements required by the commercial marketplace. This new approach to phase noise measurements uses fast digital-to-analog converters to digitize the input RF signal and performs all down-conversion and phase detection functions by digital signal processing. It has several signifi ...

Our Phase II main goal is to demonstrate a robust, multifiber, singlemode optical connector for the aerospace industry. This connector will be based on the enlarged waveguide concept that was successfully demonstrated during the Phase I.This connector will be characterized by low optical insertion loss, small foot print per fiber (reduced front panel congestion), ability to withstand standard Air ...