Military, Aerospace & Hi-Rel

June 2025

New Off-the-Shelf Radiation-Hardened 15W DC-DC Power Converter for Space Applications

Traditional space applications have long required space-grade components to help ensure the success of missions. With over 60 years of space heritage, Microchip Technology continues to broaden its space portfolio and today announces the SA15-28 off-the-shelf radiation-hardened DC-DC 15W power converter wi

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06/27/2025

Red Pitaya & Texas Instruments Team up to Launch Next-Gen STEMlab Boards for High-Performance Data Acquisition

Red Pitaya, a multi-award-winning leader in providing compact, open-source, high-speed signal acquisition and processing boards and services, has announced a new board co-developed with Texas Instruments, a global semiconductor company known for its precision analog and embedded processing technologies. The new STEMl

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06/24/2025

Professor Cathryn Mitchell, University of Bath

Bath Space Weather Sensors to Launch into Orbit in 2027

Space weather sensors developed at the University of Bath satellite are set for launch into orbit, as part of a mission announced this week. The TOPCAT II satellite payload, created to take measurements of atmospheric conditions in space to inform improvements to technologies including GPS, will be part o

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06/20/2025

STMicroelectronics Launches Feature-Rich, Radiation-Hardened Point-of-Load Converters for Low Earth Orbit Applications

STMicroelectronics’ LEOPOL1 point-of-load step-down converter for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) deployments meets the needs of equipment developers targeting the New Space market, now expanding throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. The emerging New Space industry, driven by private-sector companies, is enabli

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06/19/2025

WiBotic’s CEO, Ben Waters

PSDcast – A Wireless Lunar Charging System

Today we’re discussing an exciting development, as Astrobotic and WiBotic just completed flight testing of a wireless lunar charging system. The testing took place over 4 months under the most extreme conditions. And on the line to discuss this cool bit of news is WiBotic’s CEO, Ben Waters.

Date:

06/16/2025

A Soldier from the 555th Engineer Brigade plans a series of missions with ULTRAs using OverWatch, Overland’s intuitive, tactical command and control (C2) interface.

Overland AI Demonstrates Soldier-Led Autonomy Across Day and Night Operations

Overland AI’s fully autonomous tactical vehicles, ULTRA, were deployed across 15 live mission scenarios to comprehensively demonstrate end-to-end, Soldier-operated ground autonomy. Soldiers from the 555th, 36th, and 20th Engineer Brigades, and the 173rd Airborne Brigade, executed these 15 missions using two

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Date:

06/10/2025

Bourns® Model PCP300-T414250S Current Transformer

Bourns Unveils Current Transformer Line with New Model that Features High Turns Ratio with Permalloy T-Core Construction

Bourns, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of electronic components for power, protection, and sensing solutions, today unveiled the Company’s new current transformer line with its Model PCP300-T414250S Transformer. The new model is made with high-efficiency permalloy material th

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Date:

06/02/2025

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

New Circuit Breaker Technology Impresses US Navy

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Switching is traditionally accomplished by electromechanical devices that tend to degrade over time because of wear. They are also relatively slow to act, are bulky and can be difficult for automated assembly to handle. More recently, solid-state switches and relays have been developed for the task. These so

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Date:

06/01/2025