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AFRL holds 10th annual Space Domain Awareness Leadership Workshop
The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, or AMOS, Maui Space Surveillance Complex, or MSSC, sits on the summit of Haleakala on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The MSSC, operated under the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron, hosts several Department of the Air Force space domain awareness, or SDA, sensors. The site’s 3.6-meter telescope, seen in the image projecting a sodium guidestar beam, is the largest optical telescope in the Department of Defense. This telescope and the site’s other smaller telescope systems support the U.S. Space Force’s SDA mission. The AMOS site operates experimental research and development systems under the Air Force Research Laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo / Dr. Robert Q. Fugate)
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AFRL celebrates research for nation’s defense
The Team Kirtland Honor Guard color guard members present the flag during the singing of the national anthem at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate 2022 annual awards ceremony Feb. 9, 2023, held at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo /Airman 1st Class Ruben Garibay)
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AFRL joins New Mexico national labs in postdoc speech competition
Twelve postdoctoral researchers representing the Air Force Research Laboratory, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab and the New Mexico Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research compete in the inaugural Rio Grande Research SLAM, a postdoctoral speech competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 5, 2022. The event spotlighted the research performed in New Mexico and provided professional development opportunities. (Courtesy photo)
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AFRL holds directed energy/kinetic energy wargaming experiment
Orlando de la Garza, Ross Dudley, Jeffrey MacGillivray, and Joe Aldrich (left to right) observe operations and collect data during AFRL’s Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Concept Utility Experiment (DEKE DEUCE) held at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Jan. 24 – 28, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo/Allen Winston)
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AFRL holds directed energy/kinetic energy wargaming experiment
Col. Matthew Crowell, the Air Force Safety Center’s Chief of Aviation Safety, and Capt. Phillip Butler, 314th Fighter Squadron, operate their virtual aircraft at AFRL’s Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Concept Utility Experiment (DEKE DEUCE) held at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Jan. 24 – 28, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo/Allen Winston)
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AFRL holds directed energy/kinetic energy wargaming experiment
Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment (DEKE DEUCE) team and participants. The AFRL Directed Energy Directorate hosted the DEUCE capstone Jan. 24 – 28, 2022, at Kirtland AFB, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo/Allen Winston)
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AFRL detects moon around asteroid with smallest telescope yet
Air Force Research Laboratory senior engineer Dr. Odell Reynolds with AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range telescopes in the background. Odell recorded an image of the asteroid Kalliope and its natural satellite Linus, using AFRL’s1.5 meter telescope on November 29, 2021 – a surprising achievement based on the small diameter of the telescope. (U.S. Air Force photo/Benjamin Herrera)
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AFRL detects moon around asteroid with smallest telescope yet
At left is an unprocessed image of the asteroid Kalliope with its satellite Linus not easily visible taken with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Starfire Optical Range telescope at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico on November 29, 2021 . At right, after fitting Kalliope as a Lorentzian and subtracting the model, Linus shows up in the residuals as a bright spot below where Kalliope was before subtraction. North is up and East is to the left. The scale in km is at the distance of the asteroid. (Image/Starfire Optical Range)
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AFRL detects moon around asteroid with smallest telescope yet
The Kalliope asteroid (large red dot), and it's satellite Linus (small dot), and Linus’ orbit are shown over the Four Corners region of the Southwest United States. The Air Force Research Laboratory recorded an image of Kalliope and Linus, using AFRL’s1.5 meter telescope on November 29, 2021. (US Air Force Drawing/Jack Drummond)
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AFRL detects moon around asteroid with smallest telescope yet
AFRL’s 3.5 meter telescope on Kirtland AFB, N.M. uses its laser to produce a guide star for a reference for adaptive optics, and previously held the record for the smallest telescope to image an asteroid’s satellite. The larger of the two domes to its left houses the 1.5 meter telescope, which now holds the record, without using a laser. (U.S. Air Force photo/Robert Fugate)
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AFRL upholds 20-year tradition of hosting Thanksgiving feast for pararescue students
Col. Eric Felt, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, addresses colleagues and guests at the ribbon cutting ceremony of the directorate’s Legacy Portal Mission Control exhibit, held Nov. 15, 2021 at Kirtland AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo/Arturo Cardona)
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Ph.D. student Khandakar Nusrat Islam (left), and Master of Science degree graduate, Braulio Martinez (right) at work in the UNM Pulsed Power, Beams and Microwaves Laboratory. (UNM Courtesy Photo)
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Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates 2021 AFRL Fellows (top row) and AFRL Science and Engineering Early Career Award (bottom row) recipients. (Courtesy photos)
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The Air Force Research Laboratory held a groundbreaking event Sept. 8, 2021 at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. announcing the construction of the Wargaming and Advanced Research Simulation (WARS) Laboratory. The facility is in support of AFRL’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates located on Kirtland. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Tyrell Etsitty)
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Air Force Research Laboratory's Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR) weapon system at Kirtland AFB, N.M. AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate located on Kirtland developed the base defense system; a prototype directed energy high power electromagnetic weapon used to disable the electronics in drones. (U.S. Air Force photo/John Cochran)
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