The Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) is an electrostatic ion thruster design developed by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Australian National University.

The design was derived from Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor experiments that use a 4-grid mechanism to accelerate ion beams.

The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made.

The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground- and space-based observations, including NASA's long-running and highly successful WMAP Explorer mission that has been mapping the light of the Big Bang in the entire sky. One of the world's fastest supercomputers then calculated the evolution of a typical region of the universe a billion light years across. The Bolshoi simulation took 6 million cpu hours to run on the Pleiades supercomputer—recently ranked as seventh fastest of the world's top 500 supercomputers—at NASA Ames Research Center.

SpaceQuest's ADC (Attitude Determination & Control)  units help you keep your spacecraft in a healthy orientation.

Attitude sensors augment your situational awareness and might be essential to your mission. Our Attitude control devices, both passive and active, give you the flexibility to control your spacecraft without the high cost of other systems. All of our ADC units are small and friendly to your power budget.

Item Description

• GPS-12-V1 Space-Qualified GPS Receiver
• MAG-3 Three-Axis Magnetometer
• MW-1000 Reaction / Momentum Wheel (1 Nms)

Instarocket is a touch based program to perform early conceptual sizing on a 2 stage liquid launch vehicle.

Similar mathematics are found in ZPFCs (Zero Point Frontiers Corp) Level 0 Launch Vehicle design Process.
Instarocket is ideal for college or professional engineers needing a rough sizing solution for a 2 stage LV.
Typical results are achieved in less than 5 minutes.

App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instarocket/id455325630

Semiconductors for Class V Space Flight / Satellite Products.

To support the demanding nature of space applications the TI and National product lines are combined to create a strong product portfolio. Customers will not experience any disruption of service and all TI and National products will continue to be available. By combining these portfolios TI provides a complete signal chain solution for space systems.

Customers can be assured of:

• Extended Product Life Cycle
• No Part Number Changes
• No Requalification
• Continued National Wafer Fab Operation
• Continued new product development

Texas Instruments supports space applications with MIL-PRF-38535 QML Class V components. 

The Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations (CINDI), a mission to understand the dynamics of the Earth's ionosphere. The interaction between electrically neutral and electrically charged gases in the upper atmosphere has a major influence on the structure of the ionosphere.

CINDI is part of the payload for the Communication and Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite. C/NOFS, a United States Air Force (USAF) project, aims to predict the behavior of equatorial ionospheric irregularities which can cause major problems for communications and navigation systems.

GPS Block IIIA, or GPS III is the next generation of GPS satellites which will be used to keep the Navstar Global Positioning System operational. It is the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System.

Lockheed Martin is the contractor for the design, development and production of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) and the first eight GPS III satellites.

The United States Air Force plans to purchase up to 32 GPS III satellites. GPS IIIA-1, the first satellite in the series, is projected to launch in 2014.

Skycorp Incorporated is an American company dedicated to develop new technologies, new approaches, and reduced cost to the manufacture of spacecraft and space systems.

Since its founding Skycorp has been involved in many advanced technology projects. Skycorp gained one of the very first Space Act Agreements with NASA for the use of the International Space Station (ISS) in 1999. Skycorp qualifed the first commercial payload used in the filming of a television commercial for Radio Shack in 2001. Skycorp has since worked in an eclectic mix of projects, from an on orbit servicing system for Orbital Recovery Corporation, the restoration of lunar images from the NASA lunar orbiter program of the 1960's to the design of surface systems and lunar outposts with NASA.

Skycorp is developing on orbit servicing projects and products.

Skycorp was founded in 1998 

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Established in 1954, the organization is based in the northwest suburbs of Geneva and has 20 European member states.

The term CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory, which employs just under 2,400 full-time employees, 1,500 part-time employees, and hosts some 10,000 visiting scientists and engineers, representing 608 universities and research facilities and 113 nationalities.

CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research - as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN following international collaborations. It is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. The main site at Meyrin has a large computer centre containing powerful data-processing facilities, primarily for experimental-data analysis; because of the need to make these facilities available to researchers elsewhere, it has historically been a major wide area networking hub.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, also designated AMS-02, is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station.

It is designed to measure antimatter in cosmic rays and search for evidence of dark matter. This information is needed to understand the formation of the Universe. The principal investigator is Nobel laureate particle physicist Samuel Ting. The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-134 carrying AMS-02 took place on 16 May 2011, and the spectrometer was installed on 19 May 2011.

 In July 2012, reported that AMS-02 had recorded over 18 billion cosmic ray events since its installation.

In March 2013, at a seminar at CERN, Professor Samuel Ting reported that AMS had observed over 400,000 positrons, with the positron to electron fraction increasing from 10 GeV to 250 GeV but showing a slower rate of increase at higher energies. There was "no significant variation over time, or any preferred incoming direction. These results are consistent with the positrons originating from the annihilation of dark matter particles in space, but not yet sufficiently conclusive to rule out other explanations." Additional data are still being collected.

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An AMS prototype designated AMS-01, a simplified version of the detector, was built by the international consortium and flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-91 in June 1998. By not detecting any antihelium the AMS-01 established an upper limit of 1.1×10⁻⁶ for the antihelium to helium flux ratio and proved that the detector concept worked in space.