AFRL hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony at new FORTRESS facility

by Patrick Londergan | Dec 17, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space and Strategic Systems, or FORTRESS, building here. FORTRESS, a Space Vehicles...

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...

AFMC Accelerator empowers Airmen, innovation

by Patrick Londergan | Nov 5, 2024 | Human Performance, News

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Five finalists pitched game-changing, innovative ideas to a panel of senior leaders during the inaugural Air Force Materiel Command Accelerator at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Club, Oct. 30. The goal of the AFMC...

F-15 human performance tested during Bamboo Eagle

by Patrick Londergan | Sep 6, 2024 | Human Performance, News

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron, and Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing collected human performance data on F-15EX/E aircrew during Bamboo Eagle 24-3, from August 5-8. A...

AFRL releases video footage of XQ-67A first flight

by Patrick Londergan | Jun 26, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory successfully flew the first of a second- generation of Autonomous Collaborative Platforms known as the XQ-67A demonstrator, built and flown in the Off-Board Sensing Station, or OBSS,...