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 ...
Indiatimes

Nasa’s LRO pings Vikram, opens door to new style of locating targets on Moon

Nasa successfully transmitted and reflected a laser beam between its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and Isro's Vikram lander on the Moon's surface. The LRO pointed its laser altimeter instrument ...
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 ...
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 ...
Time

Business: Mr. Kollsman’s Number

In most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the “Kollsman number.” What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to ...