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LiquidPiston Achieves Key Milestone for U.S. Army Development Program's 25hp Rotary Engine

LiquidPiston, Inc., a leading innovator of efficient internal combustion engine technology and hybrid power systems, announced that a fully integrated version of its 25hp XTS-210 heavy-fuel rotary engine has begun testing. This milestone follows the successful completion of initial dynamometer testing of the en

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Date:

04/18/2024

EPC Space Launches World's First Rad Hard GaN Power Stage IC

EPC Space announces the launch of a 50 V, 6 A Rad Hard GaN Power Stage IC designed for space applications. The EPC7011L7SH is a single chip driver plus eGaN® FET half-bridge power stage IC in a compact Aluminum Nitride ceramic surface mount technology package. Integration is implemented using EP

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Date:

04/16/2024

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Figure 1: Simplified power architecture of satellite with SA50-120 series converter

Space Power Supply for Traditional and New Space Missions

Amit Gole, product marketing manager of Microchip Technology’s discretes products group

Space satellites use solar energy as the main source to power its loads. A simplified power architecture is shown below as shown in Figure 1. with Radiation Hardened (Rad-Hard) standard SA50-120 series DC-DC 50 W power converters from Microchip. Some of the commonly used bus voltages are 28V, 50V, 72V, 100V

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Date:

04/01/2024