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  • Kirtland-managed satellite prepares for launch

    The Kirtland-managed Space Test Program Satellite-3 is scheduled to launch Nov. 19 aboard a Minotaur I rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.The spacecraft, along with 28 CubeSats, will be carried into the cosmos as part of the Operationally Responsive Space-3 mission.

  • CJR program suspended until further notice

    The Career Job Reservation program has been suspended by the Air Force until further program guidance becomes available.Any Airmen who was in a constraining career field with a February 2014 date of separation will not receive a CJR. For those four-year enlistees with a TAFMSD of February 2010 and

  • Competition teaches students about cyber security

    In coming weeks, teams of Albuquerque high school students will participate in a national competition designed to help them learn to protect computer system and networks. Their success will depend, in part, on the efficacy of Kirtland and Sandia National Laboratories mentors who have helped teach

  • AFRL University Nanosatellite Program celebrates satellite launches

    Excitement was in the air recently when two of the Air Force Research Laboratory's  University Nanosatellite Program satellites were successfully launched at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 1.1 rocket. Cornell University's CUSat and the University of Colorado Boulder's Drag

  • Kirtland takes first place at military Defender's Cup soccer tournament

    Kirtland's soccer team mounted a furious comeback in the final minutes of the championship game of the military Defender's Cup, narrowly edging FE Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., to capture first place honors.Trailing 3-1 with five minutes remaining, Kirtland pulled a defender and started pushing its

  • Pluto's near miss still provides useful information

    Pluto was recently of special interest to some scientists because it was expected to occult, or overlap, a star, providing information on Pluto's atmosphere. This occultation would be visible on Earth only in the Hawaiian Islands, so the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., asked Dr.

  • AFRL summer interns leap at unique job opportunities

    This summer, the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland mentored more than 100 students through paid research internships related to directed energy and space science. The research topics chosen by their mentors directly related to work currently being done by AFRL scientists.The AFRL program

  • Two Kirtland scientists selected as AFRL Fellows

    Two Air Force Research Laboratory scientists at Kirtland were recently recognized as 2013 AFRL Fellows, the organization's most prestigious honor. Dr. William "Pat" Roach, Directed Energy Directorate, was selected based on the excellence and the impact of his research in the biological effects of