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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 John McHale	Flexibility, Low Power Drive Mixed-Signal ICs, Whether an FPGA or Custom ASIC Industry experts still debate the field programmable gate array (FPGA) vs. custom application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) argument, but designers of both devices agree that flexibility and power efficiency drive current mixed-signal designs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John McHale	Maxwell Technologies to provide rad-hard computing for polar satellite Northrop Grumman chose Maxwell's SCS750 single-board computer over others because it could meet the integrator's needs with one computer rather than several.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale	Making it rad-hard takes time Designers of radiation-hardened military and aerospace electronics and electro-optics systems are continually looking for ways to keep power down, cut the long development cycles, and still maintain performance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale	Phoenix Mars mission uses Actel RTAX-S FPGAs The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station which is used to acquire, process and transmit temperature and pressure data to scientists and researchers back on Earth.
Geotimes December 2004	A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John Keller	Aftermarket Parts a Promising Business for Rad-Hard Suppliers Although some worry about how a potential slowdown in big-program spending might influence electronics and electro-optics suppliers, the emerging delays and budget cutbacks in civil and defense space programs are enhancing the market for obsolescent electronic components that are radiation hardened.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Products Rugged, low power 6U VMEbus board... Fused tantalum capacitors... Multifunction portable flight display for UAV reconnaissance... Molded lenses for long-wavelength infrared imaging...
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings.
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert	Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface.
Geotimes February 2005	Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon.
Geotimes April 2005 Sara Pratt	Listening to Titan As the Huygens probe descended through Titan's smoggy atmosphere, scientists on Earth were able to listen in on sounds from the moon's surface.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Embraces Small Satellites As Budget Outlook Grows Dim With the federal budget expected to shrink in the coming years, Air Force officials are already looking at ways to maintain the capabilities they must deliver to the armed services.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Packaging for Rad-Hard ASICs and FPGA-to-ASIC Conversions Aeroflex Inc. is offering radiation-hardened packaging for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for improved simultaneous switching output response, and is offering an external chip capacitor attachment option for the UT0.25 m m rad-hard ASICs and for FPGA-to-ASIC conversions.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
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Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller	Chip manufacturers expand their options for radiation-hardened solid-state memory Use of radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant solid-state memory chips is on the rise with applications in manned and unmanned space vehicles, military electronics, and even in high-altitude aircraft avionics.
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Wired April 2001 Alex Markels	The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower...
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	NASA names Honeywell for deep-space test mission NASA flight engineers needed data processing and control systems for a new mission -- a space flight validation mission that will test technologies for future deep space missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	Space Systems/Loral buys amplifiers for communications satellites Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) from Electron Technologies amplify and transmit radio frequency signals back to Earth for a variety of applications, including voice, video, and data.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	Rad-Hard, Single-Board Computer for Space Avionics Introduced by Aitech The 3U CompactPCI 1 GHz rad-hard embedded computer is an enhanced version of the Aitech space-flown S950 single-board computer with increased processing power and data throughput.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Aeroflex Offers Radiation-Tolerant Solid-State Memory Chips The QCOTSTM (Quantified Commercial Off-the-Shelf) family of SRAMs is for satellite and communications payload systems integrators who need an assured memory solution for high-reliability environments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Peregrine develops optical transceiver for space and military applications For military applications the device could be used for anything with sensor suite, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, high-resolution imaging, and radar -- and possibly for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.
CIO December 15, 2003 Malcolm Wheatley	A Visit to Europe's Mission Control AT 19:15 Greenwich Mean Time on June 2, 2003, after one Earth orbit, the space probe Mars Express separated from the final stage of the giant Soyuz-Fregat rocket launcher that had blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan. Europe's mission to Mars was under way.
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National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Space Command Looks To Fill Communication Gaps as Budgets Tighten "Doing more without more," -- the mantra coming from the office of the secretary of defense -- is a challenge for the Air Force as it tries to keep pace with growing demands for its satellite communications.
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National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Military Space Communications Lacks Direction, Critics Say The Defense Department is at a standstill when it comes to figuring out what it will require to maintain its future military space communications architecture, both industry and government officials said at a recent industry conference -- and nobody seems to be in charge.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Aeroflex develops products for SpaceWire standard The products support a networking standard for satellite applications, called SpaceWire, that can move data at 2 to 400 megabits per second.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Radiation-Hardened High-Speed PWM Controller Aeroflex Plainview's new radiation-hardened PWM5032 high-speed, low-power controller, developed in partnership with Johns Hopkins University and the Mars Technology program, is for military and commercial satellites.
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