“In a separate activity, HoodTech Vision has also demonstrated two-payload operations from a small UAS where a center-of-gravity (CG)
payload was mounted, in addition to a standard, nose-mounted
payload.
"Most all SUAS are built around a specific
payload and are mono-mission," said Jeff Imel, founder of Air Robotics, which is based in Charleston, W.
The Harris contract, financial details of which were not available, for 81 ADS-B
payloads reportedly represents the largest implementation of a hosted
payload solution to date and positions Harris as a leader in the hosted
payload market.
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) initiated the request for proposals leading to these selections as the first step in achieving a variety of science and technology objectives that could be addressed by regularly sending instruments, experiments and other small
payloads to the Moon.
The TK-X family of Overwatch
payloads incorporate multiple cameras in an actively stabilized, nadir-oriented mount with automated step-stare camera pointing controls, allowing rapid collection of high-resolution multi-spectral imagery.
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Payload market.
The Visiongain author of the UAV
Payload and Subsystems report commented that "The next decade will see the continued use of UAVs for a variety of complex and dangerous military operations.
Payloads are attached to a plate on the bottom of the canister, When released from an aircraft at a calculated location, the system glides to the ground on a 4-foot wide parachute at a rate of 1,000 feet per minute.
It takes an 11-lb
payload and its fixed kick stroke helps prevent collision with hoppers or blenders on smaller molding machines.
Besides deploying the new TDRS, that first shuttle mission will carry a variety of "secondary
payloads' such as biomedical and materials-processing experiments.
We are more into jobs with higher
payloads and cycle times longer than 3 to 4 sec."
While the Pioneer and Predator
payloads were stabilized within 25 to 35 micro-radians, the enhanced EO/IR gimbal will hold steady within 5 to 10 microradians.
None of the six
payloads, furthermore, will be NASA's own.
