by AFRL PA | Dec 22, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s and Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project have successfully conducted the first end-to-end demonstration of key hardware for the Arachne...
by AFRL PA | Dec 16, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – Air Force Research Laboratory principal aerospace engineer Dr. Khanh Pham was recently bestowed two prestigious honors within days of each other, in his selection as a Fellow of both the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)...
by AFRL PA | Dec 7, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate small satellite named Ascent was launched Dec. 7 from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program-3 mission, aboard a...
by AFRL PA | Dec 6, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NEW MEXICO (AFRL) – As the nation celebrated the 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Contracting Divisions carried on a 20-year tradition of providing a Thanksgiving...
by AFRL PA | Nov 23, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) astronomers are one-step closer to having their own high-powered window to space and the universe, after receiving congressional funding for the Magdalena Ridge...
by AFRL PA | Nov 18, 2021 | NEWS, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate awarded an $8.4 million contract to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. to support the directorate’s Precise flight experiment projected for launch in 2024. “The...
