MESSENGER PROBE CELEBRATES FOUR YEARS ORBITING MERCURY

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Michigan Aerospace provided mechanical design and analysis for key instrument ANN ARBOR, MI, April 7, 2015 — Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, announced that the Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) aboard NASA’s MESSENGER probe continues to operate well over a decade after launch as MESSENGER passed the four-year anniversary of […]

Michigan Aerospace Corporation Partners With Lifespan Behavorial Technologies

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Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) and Springmatter, located in Ann Arbor, MI, have partnered with LifeSpan Behavioral Technologies (LifeSpan) to develop technologies for early diagnosis of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. MAC is investing in LifeSpan and providing engineering support services. Springmatter is providing commercialization support, including product development, business development, manufacturing, and FDA/Quality Management services. […]

Robotic Arms Move CATS While Crew Studies Life Science

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Ground controllers overnight remotely guided the Canadarm2, with its Dextre robotic hand attached, to deftly remove the CATS experiment from the SpaceX Dragon trunk. They then handed it off to the Japanese robotic arm for installation on the Kibo laboratory’s external platform. CATS, or Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, will collect data on the pollution, dust, smoke, […]

Space to Ground: CATS Out of The Bag [Video]

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CATS – New Remote-Sensing Instrument to Blaze a Trail on the International Space Station

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The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), a new instrument that will measure the character and worldwide distribution of the tiny particles that make up haze, dust, air pollutants, and smoke, will do more than gather data once it’s deployed on the International Space Station in December. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011600/a011637/G2014-068_CATS_Overview_ipod_lg.m4v Courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, December 16th, […]