AFRL extends capability for testing solid rocket motors with new equipment

by AFRL PA | Aug 30, 2021 | News, Space

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Propulsion Division has a new capability, a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar system, also known as a Kolsky bar, that measures stress at high strain rates and helps analyze material...

AFRL Century Series – Chapter 3: PRESSURE

by AFRL PA | Apr 19, 2021 | 100 Years, Success Stories

Flying at altitudes over 25,000 feet allows aircraft to fly above turbulence and enables engines to perform more efficiently, as airframes move through the atmosphere with much less resistance than found in lower altitudes. For a century, the Air Force Research...

AFRL partners with Florida State University to develop reinforced ceramics 3D printing of sensors

by AFRL PA | Jun 30, 2020 | Munitions, News

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.– The Air Force Research Laboratory recently partnered with Florida State University to develop reinforced ceramics 3D printing of sensors. The technology of reinforced ceramics 3D printing of sensors uses a new liquid polymer in a 3D...

AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrates 10 year anniversary of X-51A flight

by AFRL PA | May 27, 2020 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrates the tenth anniversary of the X-51A’s longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight, May 26, 2020. The flight, which occurred off...

AFRL, Masten Space Systems Inc., NASA, collaborate on successful testing of Methane Engine

by AFRL PA | Feb 19, 2020 | Aerospace

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Masten Space Systems Inc. successfully tested a liquid methane rocket engine, the first of its kind tested at AFRL. AFRL and Masten signed a...