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 | Sep 17, 2020 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — The Red Planet, Mars, will soon be receiving more visitors when NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover accompanied by its flight companion, a 4-pound Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity, touches down in February 2021. The Air Force...
by AFRL PA | Sep 3, 2020 | Aerospace, Success Stories
What is a Preburner? A preburner is the heart of a staged combustion liquid rocket engine, harnessing the energy to power the other engine subsystems. The Air Force Research Laboratory successfully completed testing of a next-generation rocket preburner as a part of...
by AFRL PA | Jan 30, 2020 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Recently SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomed 72 new Fellows of the society, including the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Drs. Wellesley Pereira and Christopher Wilcox. They are being recognized for...
