Motor carrier safety evaluation conducted at University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory (UC/LANL), Los Alamos, NM

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (DOT) conducts motor carrier safety evaluations for the purpose of determining a motor carrier`s safety fitness rating. Because it was believed that DOT or the State of New Mexico may not recognize UC/LANL exempt status and desire to inspect its transportation system and evaluate compliance with applicable laws and regulations, the lab contracted Garrison Associates to conduct a simulated motor carrier safety evaluation. This report enumerates the goals of this evaluation relevant to the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act (HMTUSA) of 1990. The report describes the methodology of the evaluation and lists observations in order of importance

Command and Data Handling in your Palm

The shift in emphasis to smaller, better, and cheaper spacecraft, resulting from the NASA New Millennium Program (NMP) and similar initiatives in DoD-sponsored programs, demands highly innovative designs that standard electronic packaging cannot meet. Current technology primarily uses conventional packaging with surface mounted or through hole components. This approach increases the board size and the overall system weight owing to the larger sizes of the board and the components mounted on it. Chip-on-Board (COB) technology, where active dice are directly mounted onto a substrate without the need for an intermediate package, provides the basic vehicle to miniaturize electronic hardware. This technology allows the use of both bare dice and packaged components when parts availability, cost and schedule become major factors influencing design decisions. In a cooperative effort between The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) Space Department and the Goddard Space Flight Center Code 310 Assurance Technologies Division, a family of miniaturized, stackable electronics modules is under development. These modules can implement anything from a standalone Instrument Processor, to a Command & Data Handling system, or the entire electronics needed by a spacecraft. The small size of these modules makes them ideal for use in small satellites

NStars project: The southern sample. I.

VizieR online Data Catalogue associated with article published in journal Astronomical Journal (AAS) with title \u27Contributions to the nearby stars (NStars) project: spectroscopy of stars earlier than M0 within 40 pc. The southern sample.\u27 (bibcode: 2006AJ....132..161G