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LeoLabs is developing next-generation radar technology for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory via a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award to enhance tracking of noncooperative launches, smaller orbital debris, and objects in Very Low Earth Orbit.
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored demonstration satellite called Monolith in 2021.
Axient Corp. won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 to manage small-satellite military experiments.
Axient won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 worth up to $25,000,000 for integrated space experiments.
Intuitive Machines also won a contract with the Air Force Research Lab for designs of nuclear-powered spacecraft.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate plans to launch an experiment in 2025 to track objects in cislunar space.
The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch a demonstration mission to deep space in 2025 to detect and track objects near the moon that cannot be viewed optically from Earth or from satellites in traditional orbits.
VentureScope won a contract to establish an internal accelerator as part of AFWERX, a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory initiative to connect government, industry, and academic innovators.
The cyber range concept includes four cubesats that AFRL plans to launch to low Earth orbit in fiscal year 2024.
Concurrent Technologies Corporation was awarded a $5,200,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to build the world’s largest additive manufacturing machine.
AFRL plans to launch a $100,000,000 experimental satellite named Arachne in 2025 to collect solar power in outer space for use back on Earth.
AFRL will use real-world scenarios under the agreement to explore how HawkEye 360’s radio frequency data and analytics can supplement and strengthen a hybrid satellite ISR architecture and to develop new tactics, techniques, and procedures for utility assessments.
Phase Four won a contract on 2021-08-18 at the U.S. Space Force’s first SpaceWERX Pitch Day to fuel its Maxwell engine with the green propellant ASCENT developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is partnering with the Air Force Research Laboratory and other mission partners on experiments, small satellites, and prototypes to develop new concepts.
The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to launch NTS-3 in 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies won a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2017 to build two smallsats intended to operate in geostationary orbit.