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Varda Space Industries secured a $48,000,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test military payloads on Varda’s reentry capsules.
The W-2 capsule will carry an Air Force Research Laboratory–developed spectrometer payload named OSPREE (Optical Sensing of Plasmas in the Reentry Environment) to collect data during atmospheric descent.
The four-year deal with the Air Force Research Laboratory, dated 2024-11-26, leverages Varda’s W-Series reentry capsules as platforms to test payloads at hypersonic speeds.
The Air Force Research Laboratory launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime experiment on 2024-11-04.
The AFRL contract includes options to build the digital engineering framework for National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 launch providers.
On 2024-11-12, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Rocket Lab a federal defense contract with a value up to $8,000,000.
Kevin DiMarzio is Director of Business Development at Benchmark Space Systems and Ryan McDevitt is Benchmark’s Chief Executive Officer, and both are key members of the team advancing ASCENT viability with support from the $8,400,000 AFRL award.
On 2024-09-04, Benchmark Space Systems won a two-year, $4,900,000 Air Force Research Lab award to further develop non-catalytic 22 Newton-to-100 Newton class propulsion systems using ASCENT monopropellant for government missions.
The two-year AFRL award announced on 2024-09-05 covers development of Benchmark 22-newton to 100-newton propulsion systems for ASCENT.
A 2021 test conducted with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency used different optical terminals that did not comply with the current SDA standard.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Benchmark Space Systems $4,900,000 to develop propulsion systems for the ASCENT monopropellant.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Raytheon Technologies a $51,700,000 contract to develop satellite communications antennas for military aircraft.
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.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to change the pool of potential SBIR/STTR applicants by expanding opportunities to small businesses.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX partnered to streamline the SBIR and STTR process by accelerating proposal-to-award timelines, expanding the pool of potential applicants, and implementing process improvements to reduce bureaucratic overhead in contract execution.
Advanced Space is working with NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to provide testing opportunities on CAPSTONE.
NAVSYS was awarded a contract under the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Commercial Alternative Positioning, Navigation and Timing for RAPID (CAPR) program to develop and mature key elements of its PNTaaS system architecture to support operations where GPS is degraded or denied.
Dr. Alison Brown, CEO of NAVSYS, supports working with the AFRL and NAVSYS’ SATCOM partners to accelerate deployment of the PNTaaS capability to provide resilient PNT alternatives when GPS is unavailable.
Ursa Major built a Draper-specific test stand with funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a contract awarded last year.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to expand the pool of potential applicants to small businesses for SBIR and STTR opportunities.