Before then automation controls amounted to electrical cabinets filled with banks of electromechanical switches.

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Especially difficult to find are folks who can do diesel-engine combustion analysis and electromechanical-controls engineering.

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The corrosion from brackish floodwaters ruined hundreds of pieces of vital equipment, including electromechanical relays, motors and switches.

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Technologies being tested in the program include advanced guidance, navigation and control, thermal protection systems, avionics, high temperature structures and seals, conformal reusable insulation, lightweight electromechanical flight systems, and autonomous orbital flight, reentry and landing.

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