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AFRL award

Jeremy Banik, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate's principal investigator on the Roll-Out Solar Array program, shows the AFRL-developed boom for the solar array. The boom is 16 feet long, and rolls out and back up using strain energy.
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AFRL award

Brent Taft, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate thermal systems lead, shows an oscillating heat pipe and an oscillating heat pipe by itself. An oscillating heat pipe can remove 14 times more heat from electronics than the technology in use now.
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Space mission

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, seen mounted on the vibration table prior to the start of vibration testing, will launch in August with the help of Kirtland's Space Development and Test Directorate. (Photo courtesy NASA)
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Space mission

A team from Kirtland’s Space Development and Test Directorate transport a mock up of a Peacekeeper motor on a 140-foot trailer to the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in 2012. The exercise helped the team anticipate problems they may face in August, when they transfer several rockets to the site that will launch a NASA probe to the moon. (Courtesy photo)
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Space mission

A team from Kirtland’s Space Development and Test Directorate did a test run in 2012 to gauge its ability to transport, deliver and stack rocket motors similar in size and weight to the rockets that will send a NASA probe to the moon in August. The fully stacked rocket is how it will look on launch day. (Courtesy photo)
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SpaceLoft-6 launch to test reliability, durability of payloads

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. – The SpaceLoft-6 sounding rocket will launch seven payloads April 5 from Spaceport America, Upham, N.M. (Courtesy photo)
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ORS Launch

The Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite that launched June 29 has been deemed a success by mission management. Courtesy photo
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ORS Launch

The Operationally Responsive Space-1 prototype satellite sits aboard a Minotaur I launch vehicle in June before its launch from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, NASA Wallops Island, Va. Courtesy photo
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ORS-1, successfully launched

On June 29, the Operationally Responsive Space office's inaugural satellite, ORS-1, successfully launched from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a facility owned by the Virginia Commercial Flight Authority, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. NASA photograph
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ORS-1, successfully launched

On June 29, the Operationally Responsive Space office's inaugural satellite, ORS-1, successfully launched from Pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a facility owned by the Virginia Commercial Flight Authority, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. NASA photograph
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Base-led experiments to visit space station

Wrapped in red, the MHTEX experiment is ready to be sent to the International Space Station on April 29. The box below and to the right of the wrapping is the VADER experiment. U.S. Air Force photo
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AFRL to open new lab next month

The construction of the Battlespace Environment Laboratory began August 26, 2009, and was completed by September 2010. The 145,000 square foot, two-story laboratory is on Carlisle and Gibson. The picture shows when the last piece of steel was placed on the facility, called “topping-off.” Workers used an 80-ton crane to lift the last 30-foot steel beam and place it on the roof. The largest beam lifted by the crane was 62 feet long and weighed 5 tons. The new facility will house the people relocating from Hanscom AFB, Mass. U.S. Air Force Photo by Elizabeth Martinez
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Vehicle close to launch

The Demonstration and Science Experiments satellite during testing at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate. U.S. Air Force Photo
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Minotaur I

1st Lt. Joshua Johnson, Capt. Khirah Morgan, Capt. Hiro Ababon, Maj. Robert Douglass and Col. Sam McCraw, all from the Space Development and Test Wing, Kirtland AFB, N.M., stand in front of the Minotaur I rocket that brought the Air Force Research Laboratory?s TacSat-2 to orbit on Dec. 16. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
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Battle Space Enviroment Building

Battle Space Enviroment Building at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM
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Researchers focused on providing alternative power storage for spacecraft

Completed mini-Agile Multi-Purpose Satellite Simulator displaying three flywheel mass simulators. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
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