by Patrick Londergan | Aug 12, 2025 | Integrated Capabilities, News, Space, Vanguards
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) — The Department of the Air Force (DAF) launches the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) Vanguard on the USSF-106 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, Aug. 12, 2025. NTS-3 is a payload for...
by Patrick Londergan | Jul 28, 2025 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — Col. Richard R. Beckman assumed command as director of the Space Vehicles Directorate and commander of the Phillips Research Site, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, at Kirtland Air Force Base,...
by Patrick Londergan | May 7, 2025 | News, Space
Summary: SSC and AFRL have reached a critical milestone in advancing cislunar SSA with the successful completion of the Oracle-M Hot Fire Test, which marks a major step toward ensuring Oracle-M’s readiness for its upcoming mission to monitor and track objects as they...
by Patrick Londergan | Dec 17, 2024 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space and Strategic Systems, or FORTRESS, building here. FORTRESS, a Space Vehicles...
by Patrick Londergan | Dec 10, 2024 | News, Space
ORLANDO, Fla. (AFNS) — U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman and Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force John Bentivegna announced the Guardian Arena winners during the Space Force Association Spacepower Conference in Orlando, Dec. 10. 105...
by Patrick Londergan | Nov 25, 2024 | News, Space
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment, Nov. 4, 2024. SPIRRAL, flown by AFRL through the DOD Space Test Program, will characterize the...
