Naval Air Warfare Center - Lakehurst. MSE developed, designed, and tested a machine vision/pattern recognition system to confirm when an aircraft launch bar is properly seated in the catapult shuttle of an aircraft carrier. Technology is being demonstrated on the USS Stennis.

The goal of this project is to develop enabling technologies and conceptual design criteria leading to the design, fabrication, and operation of a medium-scale hypersonic wind tunnel (MSHWT) with Mach 8-15 test capabilities - artist's rendering of wind tunnel.

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Accelerator Research into Advanced Hypersonics (MARIAH II) Program. Investigate the feasibility of augmenting hypervelocity wind tunnels with MHD technology. Initiated/sponsored by NASA in 1995.

Sponsored by the United Technologies Research Center. MSE provided numerical simulations of the operation of a generic pulse detonation rocket engine.

For this project, sponsored by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, MSE provided a Rocket-induced MHD ejector using an MHD generator as the power source. We developed the concept and modeled system performance.

Sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center. MSE developed pulse detonation engine ejector technologies for rocket-based combined cycle applications .

For this project MSE took advantage of energy fluxes surrounding a hypersonic vehicle through well designed thermal management systems. We evaluated three AJAX technologies that capture energy from the surrounding flow for recycling. NASA Langley Research Center sponsored this project.

This project includes MSE-patented hypersonic propulsion technology that allows the performance of a turbojet engine to be extended into the hypersonic flight regime. The technology allows turbojet engines to be used with optimum performance to flight Mach numbers significantly beyond current capabilities.

This project for the Air Force Research Laboratory included a combined-cycle propulsion system for high-speed flight to provide an innovative and efficient propulsion approach for planned earth-to-orbit launchers. The system enhances launch propulsion performance and allows for development of cost effective orbit launcher systems. Model of deeply cooled turbojet.

The project combines rocket and air-breathing propulsion cycles for an earth-to-orbit launcher.

Sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center, MSE identified and characterized energy systems that will enable NASA to significantly advance air and pace transportation, addressing technologies related to energy storage, generation, and transmission for the propulsion of a variety of missions.

Sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center/Goddard Space Flight Center. MSE developed flight-weight magnetic/superconducting materials and researched the fabrication and characterization of other properties of superconducting magnet actuators that will support the "Next Generation Space Telescope."

MSE provided modeling of plasma fluid flow and magnetic nozzles for MPD thrusters, deep space exploration, and orbital station keeping applications. This project was sponsored by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

For this project MSE used emerging high-speed magnetic levitation technology to develop, test, and ultimately commercialize the technologies for testing subsonic aircraft and submarines under high Reynolds number flow conditions. Graphical representation.

Sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center. MSE is investigating advanced propulsion concepts that could lead to the integration of air breathing and rocket propulsion technologies for reusable space launch vehicles. The project has the potential to dramatically lower costs associated with launching payloads into lower earth orbit. Graphical representation.

Sponsored by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. MSE developed modeling and electromagnetic code for magnetic levitation and propulsion technology. We investigated the feasibility of MHD and other advanced technologies as a maglifter power source. The potential is to lower the cost of earth-to-orbit missions. In the first stage, a launch vehicle is accelerated to a high subsonic velocity on a magnetically levitated transporter prior to release. In the second stage, a propulsion system continues the acceleration of the vehicle.

This MSE project involved computer modeling and design of a magnetic nozzle to be used in a new plasma propulsion system for the NASA Johnson Space Center. The project is in support of the 2005 Space Shuttle flight demonstration.

MSE investigated weakly ionized plasmas (WINP) for high speed flow control and drag reduction applications. This project has the potential for dramatic breakthroughs in high-speed flight technology. Reducing the drag of supersonic and hypersonic flight vehicles would result in significantly more efficient and cost effective flight operations. This technology could lead to the development of military and civilian high-speed global reach flight vehicles as well as more cost effective earth-to-orbit space launch vehicle. It is sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center.

Sponsored NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. MSE provided experimental studies of gas conductivity. We evaluated the potential of an MHD generator for extracting power from a PDE for application to vehicle control and avionics, radar, and engine operation. The studies paved the way for more efficient designs of PDE-MHD generator.

Sponsored by Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, MSE Pioneered the concept for combining a pulse detonation rocket engine with an MHD generator for electrical power generation in space. It has the potential to provide power for directed energy weapons such as compact free-electron lasers, high power microwave beams, or kinetic energy weapons launched from railguns; and the potential to provide onboard power generation for aerospace vehicles; hybrid PDRE-MHD ejector concepts for propulsion; and repetitive, nondestructive electromagnetic pulse generators for battlefield and mine field applications.

MSE developed software to correct power unity problems caused by data processing equipment. This involved the initial design of devices that can be used for each computer or data processing unit to maintain a reasonable electrical condition into the equipment. The project was sponsored by NASA Kennedy Space Center.

MSE developed a prototype control console for friend/foe identification for Naval weapons platforms. We provided recommendations to the current design, and built three prototype units in MSE's machine and fabrication shop. The project is sponsored by the Naval Air Warfare Center - Webster Field