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AFRL, University of Arizona foster collaboration at tech collider event

Participants attend the University Tech Collider Working Group at the Rotunda at Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2023. The event aimed to develop and improve knowledge of career opportunities for University of Arizona students, advance technological development in the state of Arizona and expand science, technology, engineering and math education outreach initiatives throughout the Arizona educational system. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL, University of Arizona foster collaboration at tech collider event

Participants attend the University Tech Collider Working Group at the Rotunda at Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2023. The event aimed to develop and improve knowledge of career opportunities for University of Arizona students, advance technological development in the state of Arizona and expand science, technology, engineering and math education outreach initiatives throughout the Arizona educational system. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Latest milestone brings NTS-3 Vanguard closer to 2023 launch

Arlen Biersgreen, program manager for Navigation Technology Satellite-3, or NTS-3, uses a 1:3 scale model to describe the spacecraft and details of the one-year experimental mission during the 2022 Media Day June 23, 2022, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The event took place at the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate and Directed Energy Directorate with AFRL leadership and guests in attendance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Andrea Rael)

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AFRL, CNM Ingenuity shift innovation to next level at Hyperdrive Space Summit

Dr. Stacey Franklin Jones, center, O Analytics founder, senior scientist and head of research, speaks with other attendees at the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and Central New Mexico Ingenuity, or CNMI, 2022 Hyperdrive Space Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 15, 2022. The Hyperdrive Space Summit is an evolution of the Hyperspace Challenge that AFRL’s Technology Outreach Office at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico began in 2018, in partnership with CNMI. More than 150 space technology small businesses, academia, government and others from the space community participated in the event. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL, CNM Ingenuity shift innovation to next level at Hyperdrive Space Summit

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, senior engineer Gabe Mounce provides opening remarks at the 2022 Hyperdrive Space Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 15, 2022. Mounce leads the AFRL Technology Outreach Office at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico and is the deputy director of SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force. The summit was a joint event between AFRL and CNM Ingenuity, an economic development arm of Central New Mexico Community College. More than 150 space technology small businesses, academia, government and others from the space community participated this year. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL breaks ground on new FORTRESS space lab

Leaders from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, Army Corps of Engineers, and QA Construction, LLC break ground on the agency’s new Facility for Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space & Strategic Systems at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2022. The facility will enable researchers to develop solutions for trusted, high-performance electronic components with necessary space and strategic-hardening to ensure the survivability of key U.S. Space Force and Air Force systems. (U.S. Air Force photo / Lt. Nina Rogers)

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AFRL breaks ground on new FORTRESS space lab

Erin Pettyjohn, the deputy director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, speaks at a ground-breaking ceremony for the new Facility for Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space and Strategic Systems at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Nov. 16, 2022. The facility will enable researchers to develop solutions for trusted, high-performance electronic components with necessary space and strategic-hardening to ensure the survivability of key U.S. Space Force and Air Force systems. (U.S. Air Force photo / Lt. Nina Rogers)

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AFRL encourages public sector collaboration, insight at New Mexico Cyber and Space Symposium

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, senior engineer Joseph "Dan" Trujillo, the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate's Space Cyber Resiliency lead and organizer of the New Mexico Cyber and Space Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 12-14, 2022, holds a CubeSat miniature of a satellite. The CubeSat contains all the components of a satellite and allows AFRL to study vulnerabilities in a space vehicle to develop solutions for protection against cyberattack. (U.S. Air Force photo / Tyrell Etsitty)

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AFRL encourages public sector collaboration, insight at New Mexico Cyber and Space Symposium

Col. Jeremy Raley, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Phillips Research Site commander and the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate director, provides the keynote address at the New Mexico Cyber and Space Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 12-14, 2022. AFRL, in partnership with Deloitte and Central New Mexico Community College hosted the event for more than 150 attendees from across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, industry, commercial and private businesses and academia. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sara Telano)

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AFRL STEM unit receives DOD STARBASE’s highest level award

Students from South Mountain Elementary School build a human circuit with instructor Spike at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM Academy instructor, during DOD STARBASE NM, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 15, 2022. The program was recently elevated to Level-III status, the highest level of accreditation.

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AFRL STEM unit receives DOD STARBASE’s highest level award

2nd Lt. Latofat Quick, a volunteer mentor from the Air Force Research Laboratory, assists a student during a rocket build at DOD STARBASE NM, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 8, 2022. The program was recently elevated to Level-III status, the highest level of accreditation.

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AFRL partners with New Mexico Army National Guard in STEM aviation event

New Mexico Army National Guardsman Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anita Guderjohn, with the 168th Medevac Company, talks to students participating in the DOD STARBASE STEM Camp, inside an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, June 14, 2022. Guderjohn provided a tour of the aircraft and answered questions about their mission, and how she became a pilot. STARBASE New Mexico is a DOD program managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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AFRL partners with New Mexico Army National Guard in STEM aviation event

New Mexico Army National Guard pilot Capt. Dustin Offret, lets students get a feel for piloting an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during the Air Force Research Laboratory's DOD STARBASE STEM Camp at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, June 14, 2022.

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AFRL partners with New Mexico Army National Guard in STEM aviation event

Members of the New Mexico Army National Guard, from left, Capt. Dustin Offret, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Anita Guderjohn, Sgt. Benjamin Vasquez, and students stand in front of an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during the Air Force Research Laboratory's DOD STARBASE STEM Camp at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, June 14, 2022.

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New AFRL virtual range to bring directed energy capabilities to warfighters

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, or DEKE DEUCE, held at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo / Allen Winston)

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AFRL is developing green power for satellites

Dr. Andre Spears, an Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate postdoctoral research fellow from the University of New Mexico, assembles a solid oxide fuel cell for testing, as part of the Bipropellant Enabled Electrical Power Supply, or BEEPS, effort.

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AFRL is developing green power for satellites

A solid oxide fuel cell stack designed and assembled for the Bipropellant Enabled Electrical Power Supply, or BEEPS, effort by Air Force Research Laboratory collaborator OxEon Energy that is capable of providing stable electric power by consuming a steady flow of bipropellant at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

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AFRL is developing green power for satellites

Solid oxide fuel cells additively manufactured by the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Aerospace Systems Directorate for the Bipropellant Enabled Electrical Power Supply, or BEEPS, effort, using novel aerosol jet printing capabilities at AFRL at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

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Earth Day focus — Beaming solar power from satellite array

The image depicts a space based solar power beaming system, the end-goal for the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research, or SSPIDR, project. SSPIDR consists of several small-scale flight experiments that will mature technologies needed to build a prototype solar power distribution system.

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Today’s space domain awareness just got better as new AFRL Space lab opens

Todd Parris, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Geospace Environment Impacts and Applications Branch chief, speaks to a gathering crowd during the AFRL Skywave Technology Lab ribbon cutting ceremony at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 11, 2022. After the ceremony, Parris led a guided tour of the new lab.

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