(IA) Commerical Aerospace News - May 5th, 2023
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AEROSPACE BRIEFS
Avionics upgrades go a long way
U.S. will not extend deadline on critical 5G airplane retrofit
Bluetail software aims to reduce Part 135 inspection time
SpaceX Starship grounded indefinitely by FAA
NUMBER-ONE FOR TAKEOFF
ZeroAvia to retrofit Alaska Airlines regional turboprop to hydrogen
In January, ZeroAvia flew a retrofitted 19-seat aircraft with its prototype 600kW hydrogen-electric engine (ZA600).
UP IN THE AIR
Air Canada and telecom partner Bell announce connectivity plan and expansion of tech for passengers
Partnership also includes complimentary mobile SIM cards on select inbound international flights, which newcomers and visitors can activate in flight, allowing them to walk off the plane and be connected.
Safran to lead Open Fan demonstration program with European partners under Clean Aviation OFELIA project
The Open Fan aims to save 20% of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions compared to today’s narrow body engines.
NASA selects Thermo Electron's Exploris 240 Orbitrap mass spectrometer
Methods based on fragmentation and ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry that can interrogate single atom isotope enrichments in small molecules.
Boeing to assess 19 technologies on its demonstrator aircraft
Boeing will use first Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a 787-10 Dreamliner, to partner with four countries on operational efficiency testing.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION
United Airlines backs algae-based fuel producer Viridos
Viridos has already achieved seven times the oil productivity compared to typical wild-type algae.
German Aerospace Center studies acoustic advantages and disadvantages of engine placement configurations
The results help to develop technologies that can reduce the aircraft noise level of future aircraft.
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QuickChat: Network-centric Sensor Fusion and Processing with Open Standards
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NEW PRODUCTS
RF couplers, power dividers for test, instrumentation, and satellite communications introduced by Pasternack
The RF power dividers and RF couplers feature maximum power ratings to 30 Watts and operating frequency to 70 GHz.
SOSA-aligned data conversion card for embedded computing that needs high sampling introduced by Annapolis
The Jariet transceiver performs frequency conversion and filtering in the digital domain, eliminating the need for costly analog frequency conversion.
Light-detection environmental sensors for laboratories, factory floors, manufacturing introduced by L-Com
Light sensors measure either ambient light or UV light, and the wall-mount ambient light models measure light intensity to 65,000 Lux or 200,000 Lux.
SOSA-aligned data conversion card for embedded computing that needs high sampling introduced by Annapolis
The Jariet transceiver performs frequency conversion and filtering in the digital domain, eliminating the need for costly analog frequency conversion.
