Wireless bus leading to more proficient satellites.* Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. of Redondo Beach Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. , Calif., is developing a wireless spacecraft bus for the Air Force that could lead to less expensive and lighter satellites. The radiation hardened bus serves as an electrical interface between onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. equipment and payloads. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It will cut the "extensive touch labor, risks and complexities that are associated with integrating heavy, copper wire harnesses," notes John Brock For the coach of the Springfield College soccer team, see . John Brock is a fictional British undercover agent created by Desmond Skirrow. He appeared in three fast-paced, witty, and irreverent spy novels written in the late 1960s. , a Northrop executive. He adds that the wireless device will complement the Air Force Research Laboratory's own electronics architecture that is called space plug-n-play avionics, or SPA. SPA permits automatic system recognition, fault detection and equipment removal not requiring software or database changes. |
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