Build or Buy: The Strains of Designing a Flight Recorder
Designing a flight recorder (FR) that complies to international standards and crash survivability is very challenging and more expensive than buying one.
Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, is having an influence on military logistics, and helps supply personnel get replacement parts where and when they’re needed — even on the front lines.
The wave of commercially developed communications and remote-sensing satellites seeks to balance costs, capability, size, weight, and power consumption in the latest new space designs.