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The Air Force Research Laboratory signed an agreement with ABL Space Systems to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion components for future use in launch vehicles.
ABL Space Systems established a presence at Edwards Air Force Base test site 1-56 of the AFRL rocket propulsion division.
AFRL did not disclose the 2019-07-10 CRADA with ABL Space Systems until 2020-01-09 at ABL Space Systems’ request.
A three-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between AFRL and ABL Space Systems was signed on 2019-07-10.
Space Vector will launch a suborbital mission named Precise from Wallops Island in fall 2020 to test readiness of space flight components for future orbital flights under an AFRL mission.
OTV-5 hosted the Air Force Research Laboratory’s second Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader experiment (ASETS-II).
Deployable Space Systems tested a ROSA lightweight flexible blanket array on the International Space Station in 2017 with support from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles directorate awarded Viasat a $10,000,000 contract in May to test whether a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite could serve as a communications network relay in a program called XVI.
DSX was designed and built at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
AFRL’s DSX satellite, spanning nearly the length of a football field, was deployed on 2019-07-12.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, through its subsidiary Expace, will provide the Kuaizhou-11 at a rate of $5,000 per kilogram to LEO, which the AFRL-DIU report characterizes as five times less expensive than comparable launch capabilities.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Innovation Unit produced a 2019-05-30 report titled "State of the Space Industrial Base: Threats, Challenges and Actions."
The $10,000,000 contract awarded to Viasat is for a pilot program led by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles directorate to test a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite in low Earth orbit as a network relay.
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) was awarded a contract by the Administrator of the Space Enterprise Consortium under the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI program to deliver and test a Link 16-capable Low Earth Orbit spacecraft.
Space Plug and Play Architecture Research CubeSat-1 (SPARC-1) is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory in cooperation with the Swedish military to test modular spacecraft avionics.
The Air Force Research Laboratory will launch the experimental PNT satellite NTS-3 in 2022.
AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate awarded an $80,400,000 contract for NTS-3 to Harris Corporation in December.
AFRL’s ESPAStar bus was used for the ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment (EAGLE) that launched on an Atlas 5 rocket.
AFRL awarded Braxton Technologies a Small Business Innovation Research contract in 2017 to develop the ground system for NTS-3.
The Air Force experimentation office is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory and works directly with Air Force and Department of Defense leaders at the Pentagon.