MAE Wrap-Up - Aug 18th, 2023
 
 
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August 18, 2023
TOP OF THE ORDER
The AIR flight test engineers, the FAA says, need to be trained by industry via flight training devices like replica aircraft instruments, equipment, and controls or in an open flight deck area.
WEEK IN REVIEW
Panasonic Avionics announced an 50 percent capacity expansion of its global connectivity network with the addition of [geostationary Ku-band satellite capacity that delivers high-speed in-flight internet.
eVTOL company predicts travel up to 160-mph and 300+ miles at less than 55 dB at 50-feet of height.
The eTALIN II 6000 combines next-generation ring laser gyro technology with accelerometers and embedded GPS receiver for off-road land navigation.
Blue Canyon Technologies in Layfayette, Colorado, is building the CubeSats.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
POWER optical technologies are to create an airborne relay capable of redirection, wavefront correction, and energy harvesting of optical beams.
RTX said that its Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) has completed its critical design review and is now in the build and test phase of the program.
These systems generally do not take advantage of infrastructure elements and methodologies that could optimize operating costs, scale to meet dynamic user demands, and enable the use of common data flows to ultimately improve air traffic management.
The goal is smart textile garments combining a micro yarn textile routing system and similar smart fabric technologies with low-power electronics.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
The attack fire-control radar, frequency interferometer, navigation, and communications enhances situational awareness, lethality, and survivability.
NASA has identified a strategic need over the next decade for electric propulsion, in particular in the field of high-power electric propulsion and propellants.
Needed are ways to manage and plan today's multi-link based airborne network environment and tomorrow's dynamic ad-hoc opportunistic architectures.
ICEYE US Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery provides novel data source for NASA Earth science research.