When space shuttle Atlantis makes the next trip to the International Space Station, it will carry experiments and hardware designed, fabricated and tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
This mission is a utility logistics support mission and will deliver 14 tons of important spare parts, science experiments and other items in its middeck and payload bay. [...]
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Power Transmission and Gearing Committee elected Dr. Timothy Krantz (Tribology & Mechanical Components Branch) for committee leadership. He will first serve as Vice-chair and then as Chair after completion of the Vice-chair term. The responsibilities include serving first as the Technical Chair, followed by serving as the Conference Chair [...]
On October 28, 2009, Dr. Hani Kamhawi (Propulsion & Repellants Branch) received the Silver Snoopy Award for his work with the Plasma Contactor Units (PCUs) that protect the International Space Station from excess charge build up. In addition to daily monitoring of the performance of the two PCUs currently in orbit, in August 2009, Dr. [...]
Students Aobo Guo, Arielle Stambler, and Karen Inoshita are semifinalists in the 2009-2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology for their team research paper “Effect of Solar Exposure on the Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Hubble Space Telescope Bi-Stem Thermal Shield Aluminized-Teflon FEP.”
The Polymer Erosion and Contamination Experiment (PEACE) team student’s paper summarizes research, overseen by [...]
Dr. George E. Ponchak was nominated and approved to be the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques at the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society’s October 2009 Administrative Committee meeting in Rome, Italy.
His term starts June 1, 2010 and will run for four years. Dr. Ponchak has served as the [...]
A major international publication Review of Ophthalmology in its October 2009 issue published a review article, “Cracking the Cataract Code: New Technology, New Hope” written by Senior Editor Christopher Kent. The article (pages 80-87) discusses the NASA Glenn Research Center-developed dynamic light scattering (DLS) technology, the clinical trials conducted at the National Eye Institute of [...]
AviationWeek.com reported on October 22, 2009, that “NASA has selected a Williams International high-speed turbojet as the turbine element of its Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) engine test rig, which will be used to evaluate technologies for potential future two-stage to orbit launcher concepts.
“The 30-foot-long TBCC rig is under construction for runs at Mach 2 [...]
Via Guy Norris at AviationWeek.com: Test officials preparing for first flight of the X-51 scramjet demonstrator say issues with the U.S. Air Force B-52 mothership may delay the first hypersonic flight attempt to early 2010. The U.S. Air Force/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne/Boeing hypersonic test vehicle was originally expected to make [...]
The Aerospace Daily and Defense Report (10/22, Norris) reported NASA “has selected a Williams International high-speed turbojet as the turbine element of its Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) engine test rig, which will be used to evaluate technologies for potential future two-stage to orbit launcher concepts.”
The rig is being built at the Glenn Research Center [...]
The NASA Glenn Research Center’s unique atomic oxygen testing facilities were highlighted in NASA’s Technology Innovation Magazine for Business and Technology (Volume 15, Number 2, 209). The two-page article (written by Laurel Stauber, Cindy Dreibelbis of GRC and Nancy Oates of Fuentek, LLC), discusses the space and spinoff applications of the uniquely large GRC atomic [...]
