Highly Sensitive Instrument Can Detect and Locate Materials Used to Make Dirty Bombs. Researchers at Michigan Aerospace Corporation, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center (SSC), have been contracted by the federal Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to build a highly sensitive instrument that will detect illicit radioactive materials with pinpoint […]
MAC Provided Mechanical Design and Analysis for the University of Michigan’s Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) Instrument Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, provided key engineering work on an instrument aboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury on March 17. Greg Ritter acted as Lead Mechanical […]
T. Ioppolo, V. Ötügen, D. Fourguette, and L. Larocque, “Effect of acceleration on the morphology- dependent optical resonances of spherical resonators,” ,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 28, No. 2, Feb. 2011, p. 225-7.
Q. Wu, D. A. Ortland, S. C. Solomon, W. R. Skinner and R. J. Niciejewski, (2011) Global Distribution, Seasonal, and Inter-annual Variations of Mesospheric Semidiurnal Tide Observed by TIMED TIDI, Journnl of Atmospheric and Solar–Terrestrial Physics, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2011.08.007
NASA Phase 1 SBIR Complements Other Work on Long-Range Turbulence Detection Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced engineering and products company, today announced that it has been awarded a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contract to begin work on MAC’s Short-Range Clear Air Turbulence Sensor (SR-CATS) system. SR-CATS will use MAC’s exclusive […]