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Viasat received a $50,800,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a broad range of space systems.
The two damaged satellites are part of the Blackjack program, a constellation effort led by DARPA, the Space Development Agency, and the Air Force Research Laboratory to deploy small satellites in low Earth orbit.
The Office of Scientific Research under the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted the Quantum U Tech Accelerator grant competition in the latter half of 2020.
Michael Hayduk is the deputy director of AFRL’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York.
An Air Force Research Laboratory sounding rocket experiment from Wallops built by Space Vector and Kratos was scheduled for 2020 and is now projected to fly in spring 2021.
The Pentagon has shown growing interest in monitoring objects in the region between Earth and the Moon, including the Cislunar Highway Patrol System (CHIPS) experimental spacecraft mission being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The Air Force Research Laboratory will use the Deployable Structures Laboratory to test advanced composite materials and structures to bring large-satellite capability to smaller satellites and reduce mission risk by improving satellite reliability.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is opening a $4,000,000 facility focused on spacecraft component testing.
AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate plans to host a conference for interested contractors sometime in 2021 at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, subject to the coronavirus situation.
AFRL plans to solicit ideas from the private sector and assess different technologies and approaches for the CHPS experiment.
Descartes Labs won a $2,200,000 direct award contract through the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Technology Advanced Research (STAR) program.
AFRL and the Space and Missile Systems Center developed technical standards for optical communications equipment to be used to connect satellites in space.
The AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate offers cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) that provide companies access to government facilities and mentoring in exchange for sharing their technology with AFRL.
The AFRL-funded navigation satellite NTS-3 is an experimental satellite that could transition to production using the same contract if the Space and Missile Systems Center chooses to buy it.
SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems signed a two-phased antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Engineering Team to test Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b MEO constellation.
The Air Force Research Laboratory developed an experimental navigation satellite called Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3).
The 1,250-kilogram NTS-3 satellite is being built by L3Harris under an $84,000,000 contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory in December 2018.
A report coauthored by the Defense Innovation Unit, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Space Force concluded that the first nation to establish transportation infrastructure and logistics capabilities serving GEO and cislunar space will have superior ability to exercise control of cislunar space, the Lagrange points, and the resources of the moon.
Viasat is building a cubesat for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory that is scheduled to launch in spring 2021.
The Space Force science and technology roadmap will reflect findings from the July report 'State of the Space Industrial Base 2020: A Time for Action to Sustain U.S. Economic & Military Leadership in Space' produced by the Defense Innovation Unit and the Air Force Research Laboratory.