by Patrick Londergan | Apr 3, 2024 | Aerospace, Success Stories
MODULAR PROPULSION – 1 TANK, 1 PROPELLANT, 2 CAPABILITIES WHAT IS IT? Modular Propulsion (ModProp) will enable U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command to perform Sustained Maneuver operations, Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS), and Space Mobility and Logistics...
by Patrick Londergan | Dec 11, 2023 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, unveiled two programs, Defense Deep Space Sentinel, or D2S2, and Oracle, to develop cislunar space situational awareness, or SSA, capabilities. Both programs are now...
by Patrick Londergan | Nov 14, 2022 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $72 million contract to Advanced Space LLC to demonstrate space situational awareness, object detection and tracking in the region of the Moon, supporting a resurgence of interest in...
by AFRL PA | Oct 18, 2022 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory’s small satellite named Ascent has completed all of its mission objectives and is performing extended operations to characterize the survivability of the commercial-off-the-shelf, or...
by AFRL PA | Dec 15, 2021 | Podcast
Ms. Corinne Sedano, an AFRL Group Lead for Chemical Propulsion – Flight Programs, joins the podcast to discuss her work at NASA, satellite propulsion and AFRL’s Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic (ASCENT) green propellant.
