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AFRL celebrates launch of small-sat Ascent to GEO space

Space Systems Command’s Space Test Program (STP)-3 integrated payload stack, in preparation for mating with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 launch vehicle readied for launch on Dec. 5 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket’s payload included the Air Force Research Laboratory’s small satellite, Ascent along with four other AFRL flight experiments. (Photo courtesy United Launch Alliance)

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AFRL celebrates launch of small-sat Ascent to GEO space

An AFRL technician working on the Ascent spacecraft in the Space Vehicles Directorate’s small satellite laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Sunderlin Jackson)

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AFRL celebrates launch of small-sat Ascent to GEO space

An artist’s rendering of the Ascent spacecraft, with fully deployed solar arrays. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Capt. Sunderlin Jackson)

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AFRL celebrates launch of small-sat Ascent to GEO space

Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate engineers celebrate the liftoff of the lab’s Ascent spacecraft and four other flight experiments launched Dec. 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program-3 mission, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo/Allen Winston)

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AFRL opens state-of-the-art digital Space Legacy Portal exhibit

Col. Eric Felt, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate and Dr. Darren Raspa, AFRL Phillips Research Site historian, cut the ribbon to open the directorate’s Legacy Portal Mission Control exhibit, at a ceremony held Nov. 15, 2021 at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Supporting them left to right: Gina Gutierrez, project manager; Bradley Rieck, senior facility engineer; Dan Von Tom, chief of the Corporate Information Office; and Victor Mace, project coordinator. (U.S. Air Force photo/Arturo Cardona)

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AFRL Contracting Division specialists from AFRL’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates at Kirtland AFB, N.M. honored more than 100 pararescue and combat rescue officer students from the 351st Special Warfare Training Squadron located on Kirtland with a Thanksgiving feast Nov. 18, 2021 (Photo/courtesy AFRL)

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AFRL Contracting Division specialists from AFRL’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates at Kirtland AFB, N.M. honored more than 100 pararescue and combat rescue officer students and their families with a Thanksgiving meal Nov. 18. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Peter Dyrud)

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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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THOR Wins Popular Science Award

Air Force Research Laboratory’s THOR team, pictured with the portable counter-UAS system, capable of destroying drones at the speed-of-light, at long range, in its base defense mission. (AFRL courtesy photo)

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Once the Palletized Munition Deployment System was stabilized under the parachutes, the production long range cruise missile STV and mass simulants were released sequentially, timed for safe separation between munitions. The photo shows a successful separation of a STV from the sabot following the weapon release, followed by the deployment of the STV’s control surfaces (wings and tail). (Courtesy photo)

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An airdropped Palletized Munition Deployment System carrying a production long range cruise missile STV and three mass simulants. The photo shows a cruise missile in the Deployment Box immediately after being airdropped from an MC-130J. (Courtesy photo)

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U.S. Air Force personnel load a Rapid Dragon deployment system onto an MC-130J aircraft ahead of an airdrop. Rapid Dragon is compatible with standard airlift inventory systems and provides a roll-on, roll-off capability with no aircraft modifications. (Courtesy photo)

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Air Force Research Lab working to develop future workforce

Dr. Roneisha Haney shows the students lightweight aircraft components made by additive manufacturing. The presentation was virtual because of COVID-19 restrictions. (U.S. Air Force photo/Wesley Deer)

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Air Force Research Lab uses Small Business Innovation Research and Title III programs to deal with supply chain problems

An X-ray translucent wire, shown here, is made of strands of nickel-plated carbon fibers. (Courtesy photo/Minnesota Wire)

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Graphic representation of Arachne, the first solar power beaming experiment for the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations & Research Project. (AFRL Courtesy Photo)

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Two University Nanosatellite Program students assemble the Oculus-ASR satellite. (AFRL Photo)

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The proposed Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer site, which will ultimately be composed of ten 1.4-meter telescopes. The site is managed by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology located in Socorro, New Mexico. (Image/courtesy NMT)

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Graduate students Alex Newell (left) and Kevin Reilly (right) characterizing a semiconductor diode laser. (UNM Courtesy Photo)

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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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Dr. Andy Williams, center, Air Force Research Laboratory Deputy Technology Executive Officer for Space Science & Technology, explains the engineering of the Roll-Out-Solar Array, or ROSA, to U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich during a past visit to AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. (Courtesy photo)

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