Aerospace Highlights
STARS in Their Eyes
Posted March 29, 2012In the last few years an unexpected on-screen star has emerged at Aerospace. This looker has been featured in a major motion picture, made appearances on the evening news and morning talk shows, and been in several documentaries. This screen personality is none other than the STARS lab. STARS—spacelift telemetry acquisition and reporting system—is the [...] More »
Shocking Skulls in the Aerospace Labs
Posted March 23, 2012A team of Aerospace scientists has been using a shock tube, made from a surplus WWII submarine periscope tube, to research traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), such as those that soldiers might receive from a bomb blast. TBI, a form of brain injury caused by exposure to explosions and blast waves, has become a major subject [...] More »
What is a Computational Chemist?
Posted March 20, 2012Aerospace has a reputation for having a collection of distinguished experts who use innovative ways to solve some of the nation’s toughest technical challenges. Dr. Vanessa Oklejas, a member of the technical staff in the Polymers Section of the Micro/Nano Technology Department, is just one such expert. Oklejas is a computational chemist who uses her [...] More »
Aerospace Plays Big Role with Small Satellites
Posted March 15, 2012Following three years of design, fabrication, and test, Aerospace delivered two CubeSats to a national security space agency, and one CubeSat to the Space and Missile Systems Center in January. CubeSats, which are a specific type of small satellite, measure 10 centimeters on a side and usually weigh less than 1.3 kg. Aerospace is one [...] More »
Atlas V Launches MUOS-1
Posted February 27, 2012The most powerful version of the Atlas V ever flown roared off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on the evening of Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, carrying the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Atlas’ five solid rocket motors and its RD-180 liquid-fueled main engine all ignited [...] More »
MUOS Launch Team Aims for Perfection
Posted February 23, 2012“Ground systems.” “Go.” “Upper stage fuel pressure.” “Go.” A crowd made up of Aerospace senior leadership and special guests listened intently as the launch director ran through the checklist in anticipation of the launch of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) aboard an Atlas V on Feb. 16. The nearly hour-long launch window was [...] More »
Doing the Heavy Lifting
Posted February 21, 2012Heavy-lift vehicles helped humans reach the moon and may one day help us get to Mars; their story is one of politics, engineering triumphs, and the fancy of the space age. There is no standard, industry-wide definition of what constitutes a heavy-lift vehicle. This is because there are so many variables that can affect how [...] More »
AEHF Satellite Arrives at Cape
Posted February 15, 2012A C-5 military cargo plane carried the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite from Mountain View, Calif., to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Monday, Feb. 13, for launch processing. Aerospace employees James Liau and Andrew Dawdy accompanied the satellite. On the ground at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility, they were met by Randall Hicks and [...] More »
Engineer Studies Advanced Propulsion Systems
Posted February 13, 2012In a windowless office, the walls adorned with “Star Trek” and rocket engine posters, Aerospace project engineer Greg Meholic studies the kind of things that seem taken from, well, an episode of “Star Trek” — warp drives, wormholes, gravity drives, that sort of thing. These all relate to propulsion systems that do not use propellants, [...] More »
Team Wins Second Katzman Award
Posted February 09, 2012A team of five Aerospace employees received the fifth annual Howard Katzman Innovation Award on Feb. 9 at a reception in the Lauritsen Library for developing a technique to manipulate photosensitive ceramic glass. This patented technique has been licensed to Invenios Inc., a company that is using it to produce glass slides called “flow cells” [...] More »
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