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Groundbreaking Ceremony for Richard Desich SMART Commercialization Center for Microsystems

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Richard Desich SMART Commercialization Center for Microsystems at Lorain County Community College took place last Friday. The new 46,000-square-foot building, will focus on the commercialization of sensors and microsystems.

12 Sep 2011

Testing Completed on Under Sea Network of Sensors

A team of scientists have now given us technology that will allow us to have eyes and ears 5,000 meter under the sea. Researchers have completed tests on a revolutionary under sea network of hi-tech sensors that will likely change the face of oceanography forever.

7 Sep 2011

Lockheed Martin Completes Test to Assess Navigation Sensor Suite Performance

The Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) of Lockheed Martin has successfully finished the first orbital simulation for Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation (STORRM) with data and hardware that was carried with the STS-134 space shuttle Endeavour mission of NASA to the International Space Station.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 5 Sep 2011

EUMETSAT Meteosat Satellites Provide Comprehensive Climate-Monitoring Data

EUMETSAT’s Meteosat series has completed three decades of providing data for climate monitoring. The Meteosat-2, a geostationary weather satellite, had begun providing data for climate monitoring from August 16, 1981.

18 Aug 2011

Frost + Sullivan’ New Analysis Throws Light on Satellite-Based EO Market in the Asia Pacific Region

Frost & Sullivan has conducted a new analysis for the Asia Pacific Satellite- based Earth Observation Market. In 2010, revenues earned for this market were more than US$70.1 million and it is estimated that it would cross US$220.5 million by the year 2018.

From Frost & Sullivan 3 Aug 2011

Mobile County Gets New Networked Storm Sensor System

New storm sensors will help provide real time warnings in Mobile County, Alabama. The network of five sensors is designed to help emergency management officials and weather forecasters handle evacuations of residents in areas where hurricanes may approach.

25 Jul 2011

Montana State University Students Participate in NASA Experiment

Montana State University students are getting firsthand experience of working on the edge of space with a NASA experiment. The members of the Montana space grant consortium and students of the University gathered on a plateau over the Yellowstone River east of Livingston on Thursday for an experiment.

24 Jul 2011

QinetiQ Wins Contract to Support Atomic Energy Detection System

Last week QinetiQ North America won a six-year contract potentially worth $36.5 million to provide expert scientific and analytical support to the U.S. Air Force Technical Applications Center.

13 Jul 2011

Low Cost 3D Digital MEMS Compass

Baolab Microsystems used its NanoEMS technology to produce a low cost 3D Digital MEMS compass. So far 3D compasses have used technologies like magneto resistive materials or Hall effect structures combined with magnetic fielf concentrators to detect the direction of the earth’s magnetic field.

5 Jul 2011