New magnetic position sensors for automotive applications support full ISO26262 safety compliance and provide System-in-Package (SiP) format (ams AG)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
Like every other magnetic position sensor from ams, the AS5170 and AS5171 benefit from stray magnetic field immunity, enabling unimpaired operation even in the presence of strong magnetic fields generated by electric motors, high current-carrying cables and other external devices ... and supports a wide magnetic field strength input range of 5-90mT....

Soyuz demonstrates its Arianespace mission flexibility by delivering five satellites into multiple low Earth orbits (Arianespace SA)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
OUTFI-1, a demonstrator for the D-STAR communications protocol, from the University of Liège in Belgium; the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, Italy's e-st@r-II, serving as a demonstrator for a 3-axis attitude control system using the Earth's magnetic field; and AAUSAT-4 from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, to demonstrate the reception of signals ......

Flight VS14 – A successful Arianespace launch with Soyuz, supporting sustainable development, fundamental physics and promoting space careers (Arianespace SA)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. Arianespace SA). Arianespace successfully launched the Sentinel-1B satellite for the Copernicus program on behalf of the European Commission, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) ... Boosting sustainable development ... Supporting science and education ... 3 CubeSats. ... * e-st@r-II from the Polytechnic institute in Turin, Italy, is a demonstrator for a 3-axis attitude control system, using the Earth's magnetic field,....

Astrophysicists develop model on solar flares

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Apr 2016
A team of astrophysicists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the University of Oslo, Norway have developed a numerical model that explains how magnetic fields from deep below the Sun’s surface can produce energetic flares in the Sun’s corona ... magnetic field underneath the solar surface....

Huge sunspot as seen from NASA's SDO – See pic!

Edit Zeenews 25 Apr 2016
Sunspot regions are areas of intense magnetism so that plasma is being pulled along magnetic field lines between areas of opposite polarity ... ....

Surface Scanner from ContiTech Makes Conveyor Belt Damage Visible (Continental AG)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
By means of magnetic induction procedures, it detects the smallest of damage to the steel cable tension members ... The system magnetizes the tensile members and detects magnetic fields that arise at the ends of the cords or if defects occur ... Rip inserts implanted into the conveyor belt are checked for longitudinal slitting by means of their characteristic magnetic fields....

Surface Scanner from ContiTech Makes Conveyor Belt Damage Visible (ContiTech AG)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
By means of magnetic induction procedures, it detects the smallest of damage to the steel cable tension members ... The system magnetizes the tensile members and detects magnetic fields that arise at the ends of the cords or if defects occur ... Rip inserts implanted into the conveyor belt are checked for longitudinal slitting by means of their characteristic magnetic fields....

Thin iron-based insulator-like film found capable of superconductivity at a high temperature (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
Researchers at Tokyo Tech reveal that a thin film transitions to a superconducting state at a temperature far above absolute zero - a potential boon for the field of superconductivity ... This type of current expels magnetic fields from within superconductors; a useful property harnessed via the use of superconducting magnets in numerous areas such as computing, medical equipment, and particle accelerators....

The light stuff: A brand-new way to produce electron spin currents (Colorado State University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
Controlling electron spins for use in memory and logic applications is a relatively new field called spin electronics, or spintronics, and the subject of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics ... All that's needed is a magnetic field or a magnetic material, which can orient the spins 'up' or 'down.' The up and down spins are the analog to positive and negative charges....

IMS-A Integrated Measuring System From Rexroth: Absolute, Inductive and Precise (Bosch Rexroth AG)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. Bosch Rexroth AG) ... It detects the absolute position of the axis to +/- 4 micrometers. What's more, the measuring system is immune to contamination, vibrations, shocks and magnetic interference and needs no buffer batteries in the event of a power failure ... The measuring scale cannot be interfered with or destroyed by external magnetic fields ... Even electrical and magnetic interference fields do not affect the measurement results....

Rhinos Legend Stresses Importance Of Heart Health As Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital Launches £2.6m Scanners (Leeds Rhinos - Leeds CF&A; Co Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
The not-for-profit health organisation has invested £2.6m in new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computerised Tomography (CT) scanners ... The investment in the Siemens MRI scanner, which uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the body, will also see patients able to access new imaging services including liver diagnostics, breast, vascular, bowel and prostate....

NASA is building an electric propulsion system to take us into deep space

Edit Business Insider 25 Apr 2016
We've made it to the Moon, but if we're going to start exploring the rest of our Universe, we're going to need better spacecraft. With that in mind, NASA has just awarded a US$67 million contract to develop a new electric propulsion system that could eventually take us much deeper into space ... These positively charged ions, created by trapping electrons in a magnetic field, are then accelerated out of the ship to provide thrust ... ....

NASA CSI: On the Trail of a Hazy Global Killer (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center) ... All four stages of the rocket are visible in this image. Credits ... 'Electric currents, driven by the solar wind when encountering Earth's magnetic field, exist in and around the region where aurora occur ... The seven payloads (6 sub-payloads plus the main payload) will fly in rapid succession through the same volumes of space making sensitive observations of electric and magnetic fields, Swenson said....
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