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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

The Benefield Anechoic Facility recently tested its first space satellite in decades. Anticipated to launch in late 2023, Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) will be the Department of Defense’s first experimental, integrated navigation satellite system in nearly 50 years.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

Truly a team effort, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory all had critical roles in this historic testing of the NTS-3 satellite.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

In 2019, the Department of the Air Force designed NTS-3 as one of the three Vanguard programs with the goal of delivering remarkable new capabilities that provide warfighters superior advantages in the battlefield
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

The largest anechoic test facility in the world, the BAF, provides shielding effectiveness that allows GPS tracking and jamming tests without frequency management or regulatory agency approval.
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A Mission Out of This World: The Benefield Anechoic Facility tests first space satellite in decades

After the testing is complete, the NTS-3 will operate for one year in a near-geosynchronous orbit and will broadcast navigation signals from its phased array antenna.
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Brig. Gen. Scott A. Cain

Brig. Gen. Scott A. Cain
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA staff adjust Campos, a fire and rescue training manikin, in the seat at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023. AFRL and NASA, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, tested the most current iteration of an astronaut crew seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion spacecraft during the next mission to the moon under the Artemis Program. The manikin used in the testing was Campos, named after the legendary Arturo Campos, an electrical engineer who was instrumental to saving the Apollo 13 crew. Campos is accurately weighed and has the appropriate density of a human for testing. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

Campos, a fire and rescue training manikin, at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023, where Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA staff test the seat and flight suit for safety measures. AFRL and NASA, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, tested the most current iteration of an astronaut crew seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion spacecraft during the next mission to the moon under the Artemis Program. The manikin used in the testing was Campos, named after the legendary Arturo Campos, an electrical engineer who was instrumental to saving the Apollo 13 crew. Campos is accurately weighed and has the appropriate density of a human for testing. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA staff prepare Campos, a fire and rescue training manikin, in the seat at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023. AFRL and NASA, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, tested the most current iteration of an astronaut crew seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion spacecraft during the next mission to the moon under the Artemis Program. The manikin used in the testing was Campos, named after the legendary Arturo Campos, an electrical engineer who was instrumental to saving the Apollo 13 crew. Campos is accurately weighed and has the appropriate density of a human for testing. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA staff adjust Campos, a fire and rescue training manikin, in the seat at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023. AFRL and NASA, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, tested the most current iteration of an astronaut crew seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion spacecraft during the next mission to the moon under the Artemis Program. The manikin used in the testing was Campos, named after the legendary Arturo Campos, an electrical engineer who was instrumental to saving the Apollo 13 crew. Campos is accurately weighed and has the appropriate density of a human for testing. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA staff hoist Campos, a fire and rescue training manikin, into the seat at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023. AFRL and NASA, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, tested the most current iteration of an astronaut crew seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion space capsule during the next mission to the moon under the Artemis Program. The manikin used in the testing was Campos, named after the legendary Arturo Campos, an electrical engineer who was instrumental to saving the Apollo 13 crew. Campos is accurately weighed and has the appropriate density of a human for testing. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL helps NASA test equipment for Artemis II mission

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA work together at the sled test facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 17, 2023, along with other industry partners, such as Lockheed Martin, to test the next replica of a seat and flight suit that will be used on the Orion space capsule during the next mission to the moon. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)
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AFRL’s scientific achievement award winners guest star on Lab Life podcast

Dr. Matthew Dickerson and Dr. Lisa Rueschhoff of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory are the featured guests on episode 74 of the “Lab Life” Podcast titled “Hot Topics in Ceramics.” (U.S. Air Force photo illustration)
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Knuckle Sensor

A soft ultrasonic patch that continuously measures blood pressure waveforms was a project previously developed by the Nano-Bio Materials Consortium, or NBMC, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego. The NBMC, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, in partnership with primary contractor Semiconductor Equipment Materials International, or SEMI, has publicly released a request for proposals for dual-use projects designed to accelerate innovations in Smart MedTech, a field that encompasses human performance monitoring and augmentation. AFRL has provided approximately $4.5 million in primary funding for the 2023 call for proposals as part of its mission to address key capability and technology gaps in the Smart MedTech arena. (U.S. Air Force photo / Mary Pacinda)
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Upper Arm Sensor

Wearable bio-signal sensing for real-time cognitive, physical state monitoring and augmentation, and dermal, transdermal and subcutaneous sensing are just two of the smart medical technology fields that the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, seeks to accelerate in partnership with the Nano-Bio Materials Consortium, or NBMC, and Semiconductor Equipment Materials International, or SEMI, to improve human performance monitoring and performance augmentation. SEMI, the primary contractor for this effort, is currently accepting proposals for dual-use projects designed to accelerate innovations in smart medical technology, also known as Smart MedTech, from industry and academic investigators, manufacturers and developers in the Smart MedTech supply chain. (U.S. Air Force photo / Holly Jordan)
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Biomaterials Research Scientist

Bioinformatics Team Lead Dr. Blake Stamps pipettes biological samples for use in a DNA sequencer, an instrument that researchers in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate use to read DNA samples and generate high-quality electronic data pertaining to the muskox genome, in the Synthetic Biology Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, May 10, 2023. Scientists are most interested in the genomic information most closely associated with the thinness of muskox wool fibers, as thinner fibers provide greater thermal insulating properties. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jonathan Taulbee)
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Biomaterials Research Scientist

Biomaterials Research Scientist Dr. Victor Roman examines the density of overnight saturated bacterial cultures in a small flask that was used to “seed” larger volumes of cultures in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Synthetic Biology Laboratory in AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, May 10, 2023. “Seeding” is the first step in prepping cultures for keratin expression, and the smaller flask contains a bacterial strain engineered to express a particular muskox keratin protein. Culture density is an indicator of healthy bacterial growth, Roman said. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jonathan Taulbee)
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Biomaterials Research Scientist

2nd Lt. Evon Delisle, a Biomaterials Research Scientist, prepares muskox guard hair samples to test their break force, or load that the material can sustain before breaking, in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Biomaterials Laboratory of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, May 12, 2023. Researchers involved in this facet of the muskox wool keratin fiber project seek correlations between animal age, fiber diameter and break force, and examine how those characteristics are associated with different keratin genes. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jonathan Taulbee)
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AFRL, NASA partner with 8 universities for new Mission Concept Program

University Nanosat Program students present their work to reviewers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, Missile Defense Agency, and Space Dynamics Lab in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 15, 2021. AFRL and NASA announced a collaboration with eight universities for a new Mission Concept Program from Jan. 5 to Feb. 3, 2023. The program, sponsored by AFRL's Space Vehicles Directorate, is held under the University Nanosatellite Program, or UNP, which started in 1999 and has collaborated with over 40 universities since its inception. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jesse Olson)
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AFRL Quantum research advances capabilities for command, control and communication in future Air, Space and Cyber Force operations

Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. are advancing quantum technologies from the individual quantum bit or qubit, level to the system level, where different qubit types must interface for future capabilities for the US Air Force.
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