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AFRL recognizes 2023 New Mexico Excellence in STEM at annual awards event

The 2023 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Award winners pictured with Tech Engagement Office leadership June 22, 2023, following an award ceremony held at Q Station, AFRL’s Tech Engagement Office’s collaborative facility in Albuquerque, N.M. The AFRL-sponsored event recognizes significant science, technology, engineering and math education endeavors throughout the state. (Courtesy photo / Enrique Knell)

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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

A crowd at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate 2022 annual awards ceremony cheers for their colleagues Feb. 8, 2023, during the ceremony at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo /Airman 1st Class Ruben Garibay)

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AFRL celebrates research for nation’s defense

Col. Jeremy Raley, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate presents Dr. Madeleine Naudeau, a senior physicist with the Scientific and Technical Management Award at the directorate’s 2022 annual awards ceremony Feb. 8, 2023, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Naudeau was recognized for her leadership as the AFRL space communications and position, navigation and timing program manager. Naudeau led teams for two on-orbit and four pending flight experiments to develop advanced GPS and military satellite communication capabilities for customers, partners and operational users. (U.S. Air Force photo /Airman 1st Class Ruben Garibay)

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AFRL partners with NASA in CubeSat navigation, communication mission

A sensor experiment named Gridded Retarding Ion Drift Sensor deploys from the International Space Station Dec. 29, 2022. The sensor, developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate is hosted on NASA’s six-unit cube satellite petitSat, or Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite. PetitSat will study a layer in Earth’s upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere to provide insight on space weather disturbances and their impact on navigation and communication systems. NASA's Heliophysics SPORT CubeSat, also studying the ionosphere, is seen in the top left corner.

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US Space entities examine future space technology

Dr. Joel Mozer, director for Science, Technology and Research for the U.S. Space Force, discusses the future of space at the 2022 Space Futures Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, Nov. 29, 2022. Seventy individuals from the space ecosystem including Air Force Research Laboratory representatives gathered to examine future technologies and forge a path towards ensuring the U.S. maintains its advantage in the space domain. (Courtesy photo)

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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 Innovation Awards recognize excellence in tech transfer

Quentin Dierks, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate chief engineer, presents Dr. Wellesley Pereira, Space Vehicles Directorate senior scientist and mission lead, with a 2022 Innovation Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer at AFRL’s Innovation Awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 20, 2022. AFRL established these awards to recognize and inspire the laboratory’s inventors and collaborators who develop technologies in support of the nation’s defense and whose research promotes the transfer of technology to partners, academia and the private sector. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jeanne Dailey)

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AFRL’s Ascent satellite marks end of mission objectives

Air Force Research Laboratory technicians work on the Ascent spacecraft in the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate’s small satellite laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico in 2021. Ascent, which analyzed the survivability of electronics in geosynchronous Earth orbit, recently completed all its mission objectives and is currently performing extended operations. (U.S. Air Force photo / Capt. Sunderlin Jackson)

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AFRL commander welcomes new leader to lab’s Kirtland site

Col. Jeremy A. Raley assumes command of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site as AFRL commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle passes him the unit guidon at a change of command ceremony July 13, 2022 at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Raley became the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate director as well as the site commander, which includes the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Miranda Loera)

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AFRL commander welcomes new leader to lab’s Kirtland site

Col. Eric J. Felt relinquishes command of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips Research Site to AFRL commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle at a change of command ceremony July 13, 2022 at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Felt is the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate director as well as the site commander, which includes the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Miranda Loera)

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AFRL’s new lab to accelerate hybrid space architecture

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its newest space facility, the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, laboratory, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 12, 2022, with Col. Eric Felt, director, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, as the presiding official. Joining Felt in the ribbon cutting are (from left): Bradley Rieck, AFRL senior engineer facility project lead; Felt; Col. Jon Luminati, AFRL Integrated Experiments and Evaluation Division chief; Maj. Brett Fuller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, Albuquerque District deputy commander; and Filemon Gallegos, USACE project manager.

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

U.S. Space Force Col. Eric Felt, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate director and presiding official; and Todd Parris, AFRL Geospace Environment Impacts and Applications Branch chief, cut a ribbon during the AFRL Skywave Technology Lab ribbon cutting ceremony at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 11, 2022, as AFRL team members and other participants look on. The facility will support the understanding of radio wave, also called skywave, disturbances as AFRL studies their propagation in the atmosphere.

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AFRL leader tapped for key Space Force acquisition position

Col. Eric J. Felt is the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate director and commander of the Phillips Research Site, located at Kirtland AFB, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL and Northrop Grumman Demonstrate Solar to Radio Frequency Conversion

AFRL and Northrop Grumman attendees gather behind an industrial-grade opaque tarp to shield them from the intense light of the solar simulator used in the Solar-to-Radio Frequency demo at Northrop Grumman facilities and view RF output data from the sandwich tile. (Courtesy photo/Northrop Grumman)

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AFRL and Northrop Grumman Demonstrate Solar to Radio Frequency Conversion

Project Managers James Winter (Air Force Research Laboratory) and Tara Theret (Northrop Grumman) hold models of the photovoltaic and the radio frequency sides of the sandwich tile, while at the Linthicum, Maryland facility, to witness the conversion and beaming experiment. (Courtesy photo/Northrop Grumman)

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AFRL engineer receives sought-after Fellow recognitions

Air Force Research Laboratory principal aerospace engineer Dr. Khanh Pham with his wife Huong Nguyen at the National Academy of Inventors induction to the rank of NAI Senior Member in a ceremony held earlier this year in Tampa, Florida. (Photo/courtesy of NAI)

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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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