L-ORAS (Low-Altitude Flight Operations Risk Assessment System) is the world’s first fully integrated software platform redefining flight safety for low-altitude UAVs. Designed for commercial operators, regulators, and defense users, it leverages advanced automation to simplify evaluations and deliver unmatched speed and reliability. Traditional UAV risk assessments are slow, fragmented, overly reliant on limited expertise, causing delays, administrative burdens, and safety blind spots. Competing tools fail to unify international standards or provide end-to-end compliance, leaving approval gaps. L-ORAS introduces breakthrough innovation by seamlessly incorporating both SORA (Specific Operations Risk Assessment) by EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) and SRM (Safety Risk Management) by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). The platform automates risk classification, generates comprehensive assessment portfolios, and consolidates operational data—enabling high-confidence approvals, insurance optimization, and safety oversight. Looking ahead, L-ORAS will emerge as a global standard-bearer, driving UAV innovation and becoming the leader in safe, scalable, trusted unmanned flight operations.

The ASN-157 was developed to meet the ongoing need for helicopters with reduced size and weight avionics. The ASN-157 system has an accuracy of 0.15 percent of total velocity, weighs less than 13 lbs., consists of one line-replaceable unit, and has a predicted mean time between failure of over 7,300 hours.

Military and Commercial

The SDI170 IMU is designed for demanding, mission-critical, rugged environments and ideal for continuous use applications with no wear-out components, highly linear accelerometer performance and longer life compared to competing alternatives. It is constructed with EMCORE’s latest generation quartz gyros, quartz accelerometers, and high-speed signal processing to achieve outstanding precision performance. The solid-state quartz sensors and hermetically sealed IMU construction provide reliable MTBF and a 20-year operating and storage life. Continuous Built-in Test (BIT), configurable communications protocols, electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection and flexible input power compatibility make the SDI170 IMU easy to use in a wide range of higher-order integrated commercial and defense system applications.

The UHF-band TRX module features transmit diversity, allowing selection between two transmit ports and providing an output power of at least 1 W. It includes a gain control function for transmission and an internal local oscillator for IF-to-UHF upconversion. Transmit functions also include ALC (Automatic Level Control) and over-temperature protection. On the receive side, the module selects one of two input channels and performs downconversion. It supports AGC (Automatic Gain Control) with a response time of 80 µs, enabling real-time gain adjustment based on input signal level. The dynamic range of the receive input spans from -100 dBm to -20 dBm, and the noise figure is 5.0 dB or less. Both transmit and receive paths include built-in path self-test functions.

This miniature fin actuator manufactured by MPS Microsystems was designed based on customer specifications. Designed to guide a very small object and disposing of an extremely limited space, it meets strict requirements in terms of performance, weight - less than 100 g - and dimensions. To reduce the length of this actuator, MPS Microsystems used part of the screw length as the motor axis. This screw is equipped with a very compact 4-point contact bearing that simultaneously absorbs axial and radial loads. The angular play on the aileron axis is less than 0.1° rms. This actuator meets the storage and vibration requirements of military equipment.

Plane Windows are used as substrates for a variety of applications, such as laser window, output couplers, beamsplitters, beam combiners, mirrors, dichroic filters and plate polarizers. Considerations in selecting window substrates include transmission range, absorption coefficient, incident laser power density and environmental factors such as pressure, temperature, moisture, abrasion and corrosion. Plane Windows listed under UV / VIS / NIR substrates are specified for applications involving coating wavelengths 193nm ≤ λ〈2.0 μm. Units for these substrates are given in mm. Plane Windows listed under IR substrates are specified for applications involving coating wavelengths λ≥ 2.0 μm. Units for these substrates are given in inches. Refer to the THIN FILM COATINGS section for information on coatings that can be applied to these substrates.

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