Aviation Week

Mid-Continent Instruments Begins Delivering Altimeter, Airspeed Indicator

Mid-Continent Instruments has received TSO certification and started delivering two new instruments, the MD15 two-in. altimeter and the MD25 two-in. airspeed indicator. “The MD15 altimeter and MD25 ...
The New York Times

How 5G Clashed With an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s

The potential for interference between 5G signals and the radio altimeters long used by pilots has divided the telecom and aviation industries. By Stephen Gandel A technological innovation that helped ...
Business Insider

Instrument built by Maxar Technologies' MDA for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission provides high resolution 3D scans of the Asteroid Bennu

BRAMPTON, ON, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), today announced that the laser altimeter instrument it built for the Canadian Space Agency's (CSA ...
EDN

A Radio Altimeter for Landing UAVs or Small Aircraft

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...
gearpatrol

A Tool Watch This Wonderfully Overbuilt Shouldn’t Look Nearly This Good

When Bamford Watch Department founder George Bamford approached Oris CEO Rolf Studer about collaborating on a ProPilot Altimeter, he already had a detailed vision. Studer enthusiastically accepted, ...
SpaceNews

Instrument built by Maxar Technologies’ MDA for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission provides high resolution 3D scans of the Asteroid Bennu

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), today announced that the laser altimeter instrument it built for the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) contribution to NASA’s Origins, Spectral ...