Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Happy Pride Month! You are seen, you are welcome, you are celebrated, and you are an important part of our team.
Stayed tuned through June: Join us on our Instagram to meet some of our LQBTQIA+ employees and find out what makes them proud, inside and out.
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#BTSFriday 🛩 Not all of our laboratories are on the ground. Last year, we loaded our Mid-infrared Airborne Hyperspectral Imager (MAHI) and Mako sensors onto a Twin Otter Aircraft to capture data related to the environmental and atmospheric effects of the Creek Fire wildfire and the smoke it produced.
The MAHI/Mako sensors provide infrared hyperspectral imaging capabilities, which can detect and identify gasses resulting from widespread wildfires, and analyze the movement and effects of these gasses on the environment.
Airborne infrared hyperspectral imaging technology has been routinely used to support national security and intelligence community applications (such as identifying ground-based vehicles). However, Aerospace was instrumental in expanding airborne infrared hyperspectral imaging capabilities into Earth science applications, such as mineral mapping, global warming studies, and crop health analysis.
#behindthescenes #mahimako #wildfires #earthsciences #research #california #creekfire #science #laboratories #workataerospace #aerospace #environmentalscience
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#BehindtheScenesFriday 🛰 Welcome to our PACE (Payload and Antenna Characterization and Environments) Lab. Here, we perform environmental testing of smallsat payloads to ensure they can operate once in orbit. Space is a harsh environment, and the ride to space is especially rough. Electronics we use in our everyday lives would not operate in space, nor survive the trip there. [Take the virtual tour here: gallery.aerospace.org/wp-content/uploads/tours/PAC…]
Our testing equipment includes a radio frequency anechoic chamber, thermal cycle chamber, thermal vacuum chamber, and vibration table. The facility is also home to a mobile lab that enables radio frequency experimentation to be deployed off campus. Whether in support of cubesat testing or other customer programs, we can go where the testing is needed.
It takes a team of experts to build and test space systems. The PACE Lab is part of Aerospace’s nationwide work in hardware prototyping, which includes testing facilities like this in Virginia and those in California. PACE Lab is a collaboration with experts from our Communications Technologies Division, Electronics Sensors Division, Vehicle Systems Division, and xLab.
#space #spacetesting #cubesats #smallsats #theaerospacecorporation #aerospace #btsfriday
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This one is for the skywatchers. Last week's powerful solar flare had the potential to make the #auroras visible at lower latitudes than normally seen. Aerospace's Dr. Christine Gabrielse demonstrates how this phenomenon of #spaceweather works in an episode of @CBSUnstoppable.
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We're partnering with TechCrunch for TC Sessions: Space 🗓 Dec. 14-15. As a member of the Aerospace community, get a full-access ticket for just $20 using code "aerospace2021space" here: techcrunch.com/events/tc-sessions-space-2021/
#spaceinnovation #futureofspace #spacepropulsion
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#BehindTheScenesFriday 🔬 Welcome to the Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) Laboratory. Aerospace’s NDE Lab analyzes parts and materials—without destroying them in the process. Take the tour here: gallery.aerospace.org/wp-content/uploads/tours/NDE…. Oftentimes, a customer needs to know if a component is damaged, but it is hard to do an inspection because the component is already installed, or they don’t want to cut the part open.
This is one of the most advanced NDE labs in the country, and it’s the place to go if you have a problem no one else can solve. Aerospace is equipped with all the major NDE capabilities so that customers with last-minute requests and challenging inspection problems can benefit from Aerospace’s ready-to-deploy inspection techniques. Our innovative staff has advanced degrees in materials science, physics, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.
Among many responsibilities, the NDE group frequently inspects parts for the following criteria:
💥 Material defects in metallic and composite parts, such as cracks, delaminations, disbonds, porosity and others.
💥 Structural defects such as misplaces or missing inner components and wiring and connection problems.
💥 Materials characterization, such as degradation of rubber, preload stresses, microstructure, dielectric property measurement and others.
#nondestructiveevaluation #science #space #laboratory #labs #aerospace #bts #btsfriday
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The Aerospace Corporation has provided independent technical and scientific research, development, and advisory services to national-security space programs since 1960. We operate a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) for the United States Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office and support all national-security space programs. We also apply more than 40 years of experience with space systems to projects for civil agencies like NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, commercial companies, universities, and some international organizations in the national interest.