by AFRL PA | Jul 18, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — “He entered the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate as an Airman and is leaving as a Guardian,” said Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, as she began the change of...
by AFRL PA | Jul 6, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate spaceflight experiment Recurve was launched July 2, 2022, from the Mojave Air and Space Port on the Virgin Orbit space system in California. The launch supported...
by AFRL PA | Jun 28, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — “I’ll miss the “ah ha” moments,” said Col. Eric Felt, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, who will depart AFRL for an assignment at the Pentagon in July. Felt became the Space Vehicles...
by AFRL PA | Apr 26, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — Scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory are developing a multi-energy electron source, capable of emitting a beam of electrons, at dozens of energies simultaneously. In a project funded by the...
by AFRL PA | Apr 21, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – In honor of Earth Day, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is highlighting its efforts toward harnessing the Sun’s energy, converting it to radio frequency, or RF, and beaming it to the Earth providing a green power source for the...
by AFRL PA | Apr 21, 2022 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate is developing a new “green energy” fuel cell technology, that will allow thruster equipped spacecraft to convert chemical energy in its bipropellant into...
