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In-House Test System Solutions

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Building your test systems in-house? Need a faster, more cost effective solution that will free up your resources? Chroma Systems Solutions builds customized ATE systems for a wide range of power electronics applications. The industry's best power device testing ...

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World First in High Voltage Testing

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Roke Manor Research Ltd (Roke) today launches the world’s first commercial generic high voltage test facility. The new service can accommodate Radio Frequency (RF) power and voltage on a massive scale. It combines high voltage isolation with screening to 18 GHz, whereby most other facilities only allow for testing at 50 ...

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Chroma Ate to Benefit From the Electric Car Market

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Test and Measurement instrument maker Chroma Ate is expected to see orders from Tesla Motors to generate $46 million USD in 2010, revenues from the electric-car maker are estimated at $10.1 million USD in 2009. Tesla will account for 26% of Chroma Ate's total revenues in 2010 accordingly, compared with ...

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Wireless Base Stations

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

In radio communications, a base station is a wireless communications station installed at a fixed location and used to communicate as part of a push-to-talk two-way radio system, or a wireless telephone system such as cellular CDMA or GSM cell site. In professional two-way radio systems, a base station is ...

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Differences between a Function Generator and an AWG ?

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Question: What are the main differences between a conventional Function Generator and an Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG)? Answer: A function generator has standard, predefined waveforms, i.e. sine, square, ramp and triangle. The user can manipulate these waveforms by adjusting basic controls such as the duty cycle, amplitude ...

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Single Superconductor Cable Can Replace 12 Copper Cable Bundles ?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Barring the occasional thunderstorm, most Americans take the electric current behind their power buttons for granted, and assume the juice will be there when they're ready to fire up an appliance or favorite tech toy. Little do most know, the strain on our electric grid—which has led to rolling brownouts ...

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New Army Laboratory Will Support Next-Generation Ground Vehicles

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

San Antonio — August 18, 2009 — The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) broke ground August 17 on a new 30,000-square-foot facility for testing military ground vehicles in support of the warfighter. Called the Ground Systems Power and Energy Laboratory (GSPEL), the facility will evaluate ...

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PHABRIX Ships World’s First Portable 3G Eye & Jitter Test And Measurement Instrument

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

PHABRIX Ships World's First Portable 3G Eye & Jitter Test And Measurement Instrument At IBC 2009 July 28, 2009 Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom - PHABRIX Ltd., a leading UK based test and measurement provider for video systems, announced the release of the PHABRIX SxE, the world's only hand held portable eye and ...

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Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Program

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

In November 2001, the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Northrop Grumman Space Technology (Formerly TRW Space & Electronics) a $2.698 billion contract to begin the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) Program. The Advanced EHF Program is the ...

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Four-in-One Vector Network Analyzer

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Four-in-One Vector Network Analyzer that Covers Microwave Applications Rohde & Schwarz R&S ZVL13 - The Four-in-One Vector Network Analyser that covers Microwave applications Cost-Efficient ▪ Multi-Purpose ▪ Compact ▪ Future-Proof Instrument Reasons to Consider the R&S ZVL13 Vector Network Analyzer Addresses microwave applications up to 13.6 GHz Measures uplink frequencies of satellite Ku band at ...

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Lockheed Martin Press Releases
- Lockheed Martin Awarded $292 Million Contract To Provide Support For Pentagon Networks
  Company to support network infrastructure for the Information Technology Agency Arlington, Va., November 3rd, 2009 -- The Pentagon’s network infrastructure will continue to receive top tier operations and maintenance support now with an award of a $292.7 million contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) by the U.S. Army Information Technology Agency (ITA […]
- Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellite Achieves 10 Years Of On-Orbit Operations
  Next-Generation System Progressing On-schedule in Critical Design Review Phase NEWTOWN, Pa, November 2nd, 2009 -- The third Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-3) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] to provide significantly improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users worldwide, has reached 10 years of su […]
- U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Nearly $10 Million to Design New Surface Ship Electronic Warfare System
- Lockheed Martin Elevates Evans Capacitor to Platinum Preferred Supplier
  ORLANDO, FL, November 2nd, 2009 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has elevated preferred supplier Evans Capacitor Company to the Platinum level of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control’s three-tiered Preferred Supplier Program. The Preferred Supplier Program supports the company’s philosophy of building a world-class supply chain that demonstra […]
- Lockheed Martin Team Avionics And Ground Systems Soar On NASA?s Ares I-X Successful Flight Test
  DENVER, CO, November 2nd, 2009 -- Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] avionics and ground system were fundamental to last week’s picture perfect flight test of NASA’s Ares I-X launch vehicle from Kennedy Space Center, FL. The primary test objective for the Ares I-X flight was to demonstrate command and control of this new vehicle design as well […]
- Lockheed Martin Starts Integrated Testing Of Second Missile Warning Satellite
  First SBIRS GEO Spacecraft Progressing in Thermal Vacuum Test Phase SUNNYVALE, Calif, October 29th, 2009 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced today that the second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) spacecraft is progressing through a series of key tests that will demonstrate the integrated satellite's readiness to ente […]
- Lockheed Martin Demonstrates First Successful Flight Test for paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bombs
  ARCHBALD, PA, October 29th, 2009 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests of the paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb (LGB) guidance kit. The paveway II Plus LGB uses an enhanced laser guidance package, significantly improving precision when compared to existing paveway II LGBs. The flight test consisted of tw […]
NASA Breaking News
- Education Secretary Hosts DC Students for Talk with Space Station
  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are hosting Washington area middle and high school students Thursday for a live discussion with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
- MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
  A NASA spacecraft's third and final flyby of the planet Mercury gives scientists new scientific findings about this relatively unknown planet.
- NASA and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge
  NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.
- NASA Announces Advisory Council Chairs and Committee Structure
  NASA Administrator Charles Bolden held his first meeting with the restructured NASA Advisory Council this week at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
- NASA Invites Reporters to Tranquility Node Ceremony at Kennedy
  The European Space Agency, or ESA, will transfer ownership of the Tranquility node to NASA on Thursday, Nov. 19.
- NASA Gives Go for Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch on Nov. 16
  NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is targeted to begin an 11-day flight to the International Space Station with a Nov. 16 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:28 p.m. EST.
- NASA to Release New Images and Findings from Third Mercury Flyby
  NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 3, to announce scientific findings and release new images from the third and final flyby of Mercury by MESSENGER.
Test Equipment Connection Specials
- Agilent-HP 4195A
  The 4195A Network / Spectrum Analyzer combines both vector network and spectrum analysis in one instrument. The frequency covered is 10Hz through 500MHz with an excellent 0.001Hz resolution for audio, baseband, HF, VHF, and IF applications. It direct...
- Rohde Schwarz ZVB20
  R&S ZVB20 Vector Network Analyzer - 4 ports, 20 GHz, Frequency range 10 MHz to 20 GHz, Test ports 3.5 mm m The R&S ZVB series of vector network analyzers covers the frequency ranges from 300 kHz to 4/8 GHz and from 10 MHz to 14/2...
- Agilent-HP 8924C-60
  CDMA Mobile Test Set - High accuracy and speed for manufacturing test Analog and IS-95 CDMA digital phone test capability. Both functional and parametric phone testing. CDMA base station simulator Includes full CDMA, AMPS, NAMPS, and...
- XL Microwave 2200
  Path Align-R Antenna Path Alignment Test Set Microwave Antenna Alignment The Path Align-R, models 2200 and 2240 test set, is a high performance, affordable and complete test solution designed to quickly and accurately optimize the...
- Huntron 2000A
  DESCRIPTION The Huntron 2000A Tracker is the ideal complement to every test equipment arsenal. Since testing is done in circuit, with the power off, the Tracker can quickly isolate failures at the component level and find faults that scopes, multime...
NIST TechBeat
- Capturing Those In-Between Moments: NIST Solves Timing Problem in Molecular Modeling
  A theoretical physicist at NIST has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales than previously possible. The method overcomes a longstanding timing gap in modeling nanometer-scale materials and many other physical, chemical and biological systems at atomic and molecular lev […]
- NIST Quantifies Low Levels of 'Heart Attack Risk' Protein
  Searching for a needle in a haystack may seem futile, but it's worth it if the needle is a hard-to-detect protein that may identify a person at high risk of a heart attack. NIST researchers have taken the first steps toward standardizing the measurement of a blood protein whose presence in higher-than-normal levels may predict an elevated risk for cardi […]
- Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' to Display Visible 'Teeth'
  Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and NIST have built the first optical frequency comb - a tool for precisely measuring different frequencies of visible light - that actually looks like a comb.
- NIST Test Proves 'The Eyes Have It' for ID Verification
  The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity. A new report from NIST demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy even with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications.
- NIST, CU to Build Instrument to Help Search for Earth-like Planets
  NIST will collaborate with the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) to build and apply a custom laser-based instrument to help search for extrasolar Earth-like planets.
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