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Ghost town provides high-tech testing for AFRL and others

AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate researchers setting up test equipment overlooking the Playas Research and Training Center in southern New Mexico.
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

Over the last 25 years, the AFRL Space Electronics Technology (SET) program has funded the technology behind the BAE RAD750 computer processing unit (CPU) – the brains – and memory, the Xilinx Virtex5QV reprogrammable computer, and the Honeywell GVSC flight computer being used on the Mars Perseverance rover
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

The Red Planet, Mars, will soon be receiving more visitors when NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover accompanied by its flight companion, a 4-pound Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity, touches down in February 2021.
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AFRL Technology traveling to Mars

An important AFRL innovation that supported the deployment of the Ingenuity helicopter is a software suite called Veritrek that spun out of AFRL research and funding that began in 2009.
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Air Force Research Laboratory’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA)

Air Force Research Laboratory’s Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) developed in partnership with Deployable Space Systems in flight-testing on the International Space Station. ROSA offers scalable solar power array technology from hundreds of watts to megawatt range. (Photo credit: NASA)
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AFRL rolls-out new rapid contract award tool for space technology research

Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate researcher shown characterizing the performance of space solar cells under simulated space sunlight. Under this new AFRL contract award, SolAero Technologies will be using cells similar to these to develop modular “building blocks” that can be assembled more rapidly and affordably than traditional highly specialized solar array designs.
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Air Force Research Laboratory DSX spacecraft

Artist’s rendering of the Air Force Research Laboratory DSX spacecraft on-orbit with its 80-meter and 16-meter antenna booms extended. Image credit.
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Sodium Guidestar at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate's Starfire Optical Range

The Sodium Guidestar at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate's Starfire Optical Range.
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Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite

The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate’s Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite in its launch configuration
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AFRL Scientists Win Prestigious STEM Awards

Dr. Brian Kasch, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate research physicist, won the 2019 John L. McLucas Basic Research Award for his work in advancing precision sensors based on atomic physics. His work serves to ensure that these sensitive devices can survive field operations. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of AFRL)
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AFRL Scientists Win Prestigious STEM Awards

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gordon Lott, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate quantum sensing and timing program manager, won the 2019 Air Force Research and Development Award for his work on bringing new space-ready clock (or timing) technologies to the Department of Defense’s position, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure. (U.S. Air Force photo courtesy of AFRL)
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