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ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 today injected India's weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites, including 96 from the US, into orbit after a textbook lift-off from Sriharikota space centre. The launch was "another success for the Indian Space Research Organisation, which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions," The Washington...

Taking context sensing in Internet-of-Things (IoT) and wearable devices to the next level, STMicroelectronics’ LIS2DW12 3-axis accelerometer delivers superior accuracy, flexibility, and energy savings by supporting multiple low-power and low-noise settings in a 2mm x 2mm x 0.7mm package A new member of ST’s low-power, high-performance MEMS product family (alongside devices like LSM6DSM, LSM6DSL, and LSM303AH), the LIS2DW12 has 16-bit...

STMicroelectronics has released its MCU Finder for PC, enabling embedded developers to access essential STM32 32-bit ARM Cortex -M and STM8 8-bit MCU (microcontroller) information conveniently from the same desktop environment used for application development. Leveraging features of ST’s popular MCU Finder mobile app (ST-MCU-FINDER), the PC version (ST-MCU-FINDER-PC) provides easy-to-use selection tools, self-maintaining documentation, and connections to MCU communities....

Ametherm today introduced a new series of glass-encapsulated thermistors that provide long-term stability and reliability for high-accuracy temperature sensing in automotive and industrial applications. Hermetically sealed, DG series devices eliminate errors in resistance readings due to moisture penetration while offering high operating temperatures and a compact size. The devices released today provide designers with faster, more accurate, and less expensive...

400 V and 450 V Devices Offer High Ripple Current to 6.77 A at 105 °C in 15 Large Case Sizes From 35 mm by 50 mm to 45 mm by 100 mm Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced a new series of 400 V and 450 V snap-in, four-terminal aluminum electrolytic capacitors with improved ripple current capability at...

Everything you need to know before you decide to make the switch to chip readers and smartphone-based payment systems-Over the past several years, contactless payments have been slowly but surely entering the mainstream financial world. With mobile payments readily accepted at most retailers, eMarketer researchers are forecasting a 32% growth in the total number of mobile payment users in...

Telecom equipment and software maker Nokia today announced the next-generation fiber access solutions- 10Gbps passive optical network (PON) and point-to-point (P2P) fiber- for the 5G era. Telecom operators will benefit from the capacity, scale and flexibility needed to support network densification in the 5G era by making investment in Nokia’s 10Gbps passive optical network (PON) and point-to-point (P2P) fiber, two...

Acting tough, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Wedesday suspended the flying licence of Air India operations head Capt AK Kathpalia for skipping mandatory pre-flight medical test repeatedly. The action comes within a week of the national carrier taking Kathpalia, a senior executive pilot, off flying duties. Interestingly, Kathpalia – who is the executive director (operations) – has...

Saab’s package for Tejas consists of Airborne Electronically Scanned Array fighter radar closely integrated with a compact electronic warfare suite using AESA technology Bengaluru: Sweden’s defence and security company Saab has offered a fighter sensor package for the homegrown Tejas LCA Mk1A fighter aircraft. The package consists of a state-of-the-art Saab Airborne Electronically Scanned Array fighter radar closely integrated with a...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) today announced the introduction of HPE SecureData for Hadoop and IoT, designed to easily secure sensitive information generated and transmitted across Internet of Things (IoT) environments, with HPE Format-preserving Encryption (FPE). The Palo Alto, Calif.-based tech giant says the new solutions features “the industry’s first-to-market Apache NiFi integration with NIST standardized and FIPS compliant...