(IA) Commerical Aerospace News - Aug 16th, 2022
 
 
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NUMBER-ONE FOR TAKEOFF
A De Havilland Dash 8-100 experimental aircraft will be re-engined on one side with a 2 megawatt system that combines a fuel-burning engine from P&WC with Collins’ 1 megawatt electric motor in a parallel hybrid configuration with a 50/50 power split.
UP IN THE AIR
ALTIUS has one that launches from A-size sonobuoy canisters; a tube- and air-launched version; and a high-endurance bomb-rack-launched model.
DDC's 1553 transceivers and transformers are designed into the Starliner's crew module and service module integrated propulsion controllers.
The company adds two microsatellite buses to its modular flagship MP42.
To date, NASA has selected 211 CubeSat missions, 148 of which have been launched into space, with more than 20 missions scheduled for launch within the next year.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION
Mineta San José International Airport (SJC) is taking a technology-based approach to improving its parking experience starting this fall, Joe Petrie reports for Airport Business.
These conceptual vehicle design studies will identify key technology development needs and opportunities that will enable such vehicles.
MILITARY AVIATION
Northrop Grumman is building APG-83 radar systems for global F-16 upgrades and new aircraft production, as well as for the U.S. Air National Guard.
The Airbus firefighting solution is a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) kit that requires no modification to the aircraft and therefore is interchangeable to any aircraft in the A400M fleet.
NEW PRODUCTS
With efficiencies to 98 percent, lower power losses enable the products to operate in temperatures from -40 to 110 degrees Celsius case temperatures.
These high-precision stages have two-phase stepper motor with 2- and 1.25-micron resolutions, and as much as 80 millimeters per second of travel.
The COMINT system provides sensitivity of 16 3 dBm/Hz and dynamic range of 112 dB enabling interception of very weak and strong signals.
Motor controllers come in 9-by-9-millimeter 4-pin VQFN packaging, and are for size-, weight-, and power-consumption (SWaP)-constrained applications.