(IA) Commerical Aerospace News - Jan 27th, 2023
 
 
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The airline says that the retrofit will will improve aircraft fuel efficiency by up to 1.5%, reducing Ryanair’s annual fuel consumption by 65 million liters and carbon emissions by 165,000 tons.
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U.S. and international space authorities have ambitious manned spaceflight schedules through the mid-21st century, which will call for enabling technologies ranging from radiation-hardened microelectronics components, to advanced robotics, and to habitat enhancements like water recycling, heating and cooling, and long-term food production and stora...
The SOSA standard doesn't aim at creating new design guidelines, but instead seeks to incorporate as many existing industry standards as possible.
Designers of rugged embedded computing systems, laptop computers, and tablet computers balance the need to operate in harsh conditions, as well as meet growing requirements for open-systems standards.
All NIAC studies are in the very early stages of conceptual development and are not considered official NASA missions.
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The company says it will install tooling, provided by Advanced Integration Technology (AIT), ahead of moving into the building and preparing the facility and staff for Overture production launch in 2024.
The Chaparral is designed for aerial transport of up to 500 lbs of goods over a 300 nautical mile range.
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The Space and Military Applications Electronic Hardware Addendum provides guidelines for ensuring workmanship quality in space hardware.
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Device offers 100-by-100-millimeter active area, and electron photodetector has electron responsivity at energy levels as low as 100 ectronvolts (eV).
Cases offer features like an integrated Apple pencil holder, as well as support for several viewing angles and a comfortable typing position.
The AU200-120x120 alignment stages feature 120 millimeters of travel in the X and Y axes, and these low-profile 87-millimeter high XY stages.
Space qualification testing includes thermal shock and cycling, sine/random vibration, mechanical shock, critical power, and seeded multipaction.