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Teamwork Makes Hack-A-Sat 2 a Success

It takes great teamwork from behind the scenes to make an international Capture the Flag contest such as the Hack-A-Sat 2 final event such a success. The event included live commentary, leaderboard updates, competition play-by-play and keynote speakers, all captured on the event website at www.hackasat.com. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL celebrates successful rocket launch at STEM Academy

Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM Academy holds a rocket launch for Albuquerque area students. AFRL 1st Lt. Caleb Sapp advises a student on her team’s rocket. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stephen Burke)

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AFRL celebrates successful rocket launch at STEM Academy

Rockets blast off as, Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM Academy holds their annual TECH Mission Rocket Model Launch, for Albuquerque area students. (U.S. Air Force photo/Stephen Burke)

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AFRL celebrates launch of small-sat Ascent to GEO space

Dec. 7, 2021 marked the 53rd U.S. national security mission to be launched by the #AtlasV, representing nearly 60 percent of the rocket's 90 flights to date. One of the payloads on the mission is an experiment from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, a small satellite named Ascent, which is a 12-unit Cubesat conceived and developed within the directorate’s Small Satellite Portfolio at Kirtland AFB, and in partnership with the Space Security and Defense Program. (Courtesy photo/U.S. Space Force)

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Col. Peter Feng, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, speaks prior to a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the first deployed and functional 5G network on a U.S. military installation at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Dec. 2, 2021. The project began in 2019, when the Department of Defense sought to demonstrate innovative prototypes that use commercial 5G technologies as a way to augment future military capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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Left to right, Col. Peter Feng, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, Amanda Toman, DoD 5G Initiative acting principal director, Debra Stanislawski, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Tranche SG Prototyping and Experimentation director, and Jeffrey Sick, Air Force Sustainment Center director of logistics, cut a ribbon to celebrate the first deployed and functional 5G network on a U.S. military installation at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Dec. 2, 2021. The project began in 2019, when the Department of Defense sought to demonstrate innovative prototypes that use commercial 5G technologies as a way to augment future military capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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Col. Peter Feng, 75th Air Base Wing vice commander, speaks prior to a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the first deployed and functional 5G network on a U.S. military installation at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Dec. 2, 2021. The project began in 2019, when the Department of Defense sought to demonstrate innovative prototypes that use commercial 5G technologies as a way to augment future military capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

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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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