Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Neptec's Laser Camera System (LCS) is a wide angle, high-speed, high-precision, laser scanner. Installed at the end of the new extension boom for Canadarm on the Space Shuttle for the Return to Flight missions, the scanner can inspect even hard-to-reach areas on the underside of the Shuttle that cannot normally be viewed from the Shuttle. The scanner gives NASA the ability to detect even fine cracks in the thermal tiles that could prove fatal to the Shuttle during re-entry from orbit. TSA's full body scanners use so-called backscatter technology, a fast-moving X-ray that bounces off the skin and creates an image of the passengers body. The beam does not pass through the body so the skin receives most the radiation exposure. The system has been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes for Standards and Technology, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner

Flight Scanner