Nardell, C., P. Tchoryk, M. Dehring, and J. Wertz, “Low-Cost Mission Architecture for Global Tropospheric Wind Measurements,” Spacecraft Platforms and Infrastructure, SPIE Proceedings, 5419:47- 56, Orlando, FL, April, 2004.
New Technology Offers Promise of Increasing Accuracy of Long-term Weather Forecasting Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced opto-mechanical engineering firm, today announced that it had received a $2.1 million, two-year contract from the University of New Hampshire as part of a larger grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to demonstrate its proprietary […]
Docking Mechanism Design Offers Unprecedented Performance, Size and Scalability for Any Size Spacecraft ANN ARBOR, MI, February 1, 2004 — Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced mechanical engineering firm, today announced that it had received a $220K, one-year contract from Microcosm, Inc. as part of a larger grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) […]
Michigan Aerospace Corporation has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) over the past several years to investigate on-orbit satellite docking and servicing technology. One of the key technologies required for all of those operations (rendezvous, docking, and inspection) is the sensor. For rendezvous and docking, […]
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer (GIFS), Jeng-Hwa Yee, M. F. Morgan, Robert DeMajistre, Elsayed R. Talaat, James F. Garten, William H. Swartz, Wilbert R. Skinner, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5660, p. 14-22, Instruments, Science, and Methods for Geospace and Planetary Remote Sensing; Carl A. Nardell, Paul G. Lucey, Jeng-Hwa Yee, James B. Garvin; Eds, 2004