New Technology Offers Promise of Increasing Accuracy of Long-term Weather Forecasting Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced opto-mechanical engineering firm, today announced that it had received a $2.1 million, two-year contract from the University of New Hampshire as part of a larger grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to demonstrate its proprietary […]

Docking Mechanism Design Offers Unprecedented Performance, Size and Scalability for Any Size Spacecraft ANN ARBOR, MI, February 1, 2004 — Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC), an advanced mechanical engineering firm, today announced that it had received a $220K, one-year contract from Microcosm, Inc. as part of a larger grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) […]

Michigan Aerospace Corporation has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) over the past several years to investigate on-orbit satellite docking and servicing technology. One of the key technologies required for all of those operations (rendezvous, docking, and inspection) is the sensor. For rendezvous and docking, […]