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Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.

Orbital Sciences Corporation

Resource Technologies Group, Inc.

George D Case

Huiwen Yao

Alfred Herman Stiller

Paul J Bekowies

Anthony G Panson

Jennings F Worley, Iii

The present application includes systems and methods for determining pointing error of a satellite antenna. In one aspect a method for determining pointing error of a satellite antenna includes receiving, at a receiving station, a pointing error signal formed by the antenna and transmitted from a satellite, wherein the pointing error signal includes a first beacon (reference) signal and a modulated second beacon (error) signal. The receiving station may demodulate the received pointing error signal to recover the second beacon signal with respect to the first beacon signal, and based at least in part on the demodulated beacon signal, the receiving station may determine the pointing error of the satellite antenna.

Ground-based satellite antenna pointing system

A metabolically active biological component having mixed function oxidation activity. e.g., microsomal P-450 oxidase enzyme complex, is effective in the presence of NADPH and moisture when dispersed in a thin film of a generally neutral hydrophilic film-forming binder. e.g., gelatin, to convert a broad spectrum of carcinogenic substances, into metabolic intermediates, which can be detected, preferably by a colorimetric indicator present in the binder film or an adjacent binder film and undergoing a visible color change. The film or films can be carried, e.g., as spots by a suitable support. e.g., glass or plastic sheet forming a direct-acting self-contained badge-type indicator. The colorimetric indicator is preferably a chemically reduced dye precursor of a polyarylmethane dye or analog thereof, e.g., pararosaniline or malachite green. Such reduced dye precursors are effective colorimetric indicators for organic compounds containing an epoxide structure generally as well as epoxy-containing metabolic intermediates.

Method and sensor for detecting toxic chemical exposure effects and

A modular biosensor system for chemical or biological agent detection utilizes electrochemical measurement of an ion current across a gate membrane triggered by the reaction of the target agent with a recognition protein conjugated to a channel blocker. The sensor system includes a bioresponse simulator or 'biochemical switch' module which contains the recognition protein-channel blocker conjugate, and in which the detection reactions occur, and a transducer module which contains a gate membrane and a measuring electrode, and in which the presence of agent is sensed electrically. In the poised state, ion channels in the gate membrane are blocked by the recognition protein-channel blocker conjugate. Detection reactions remove the recognition protein-channel blocker conjugate from the ion channels, thus eliciting an ion current surge in the gate membrane which subsequently triggers an output alarm. Sufficiently large currents are generated that simple direct current electronics are adequate for the measurements. The biosensor has applications for environmental, medical, and industrial use.

Thin membrane sensor with biochemical switch

Subdivided coal, oil shale or tar sands is extracted under non-thermally destructive conditions with a solvent liquid containing a compound having the general formula: ##STR1## where R, R.sub.1, and R.sub.2 are each hydrogen atoms, lower alkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.4) groups, or phenyl groups; provided that the compound has a decomposition temperature higher than the temperature of the extraction, and the extraction temperature is below the softening or decomposition temperature of the material being extracted.

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George D Case