Revolutionizing space-based thermal systems: AFRL’s SPIRRAL launch on SPX-31

by Patrick Londergan | Nov 25, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment, Nov. 4, 2024. SPIRRAL, flown by AFRL through the DOD Space Test Program, will characterize the...

REVIL, enabling the next generation of reentry vehicle research

by Patrick Londergan | Sep 9, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony July 29, 2024, to mark the commencement of construction for the Re-Entry Vehicle Integration Laboratory, or REVIL, that will serve AFRL’s Nuclear Mission branch...

AFRL to highlight tech at 2024 Air, Space and Cyber Conference

by Patrick Londergan | Sep 9, 2024 | Aerospace, News

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will showcase war-winning technologies to drive the future fight in an era of Great Power Competition at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference,...

AFRL enhances workforce through STEM outreach programs

by Patrick Londergan | May 6, 2024 | Munitions, News

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Munitions Directorate recently hired three former interns directly from its esteemed STEM outreach programs to serve Eglin Air Force Base in delivering effective and affordable munitions...

Academia and workforce mutually benefit from new radiation effects and testing lab

by Patrick Londergan | Mar 6, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new University of New Mexico, or UNM, COSMIAC Radiation Effects Lab, or CREL, Dec. 8, 2023. Students of UNM COSMIAC, the...