Academia and workforce mutually benefit from new radiation effects and testing lab

by Patrick Londergan | Mar 5, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new University of New Mexico, or UNM, COSMIAC Radiation Effects Lab, or CREL, Dec. 8, 2023. Students of UNM COSMIAC, the...

3rd annual AFRL Cyber, Space Summit draws increased participation in New Mexico

by Patrick Londergan | Feb 8, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted its third annual New Mexico Cyber and Space Summit in Albuquerque last fall. Attendees included military and professionals from the Department of Defense, private and commercial...

3rd annual AFRL Cyber, Space Summit draws increased participation in New Mexico

by Patrick Londergan | Feb 8, 2024 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted its third annual New Mexico Cyber and Space Summit in Albuquerque last fall. Attendees included military and professionals from the Department of Defense, private and commercial...

New system seeks to upgrade explosive ordnance disposal robots, aid technicians

by Patrick Londergan | Jan 22, 2024 | News, Space

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) — A new system seeks to aid explosive ordnance disposal, or EOD, technicians by adding a simple and inexpensive system to improve depth detection while controlling disposal robots to manage counter-improvised explosive...

AFRL’s Oracle developing nation’s 1st Cislunar Space Situational Awareness capabilities

by Patrick Londergan | Dec 11, 2023 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, unveiled two programs, Defense Deep Space Sentinel, or D2S2, and Oracle, to develop cislunar space situational awareness, or SSA, capabilities. Both programs are now...

AFRL’s Oracle developing nation’s 1st Cislunar Space Situational Awareness capabilities

by Patrick Londergan | Dec 11, 2023 | News, Space

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – Over the last several years, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, unveiled two programs, Defense Deep Space Sentinel, or D2S2, and Oracle, to develop cislunar space situational awareness, or SSA, capabilities. Both programs are now...