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AFRL awarded Advanced Space a $72,000,000 contract in November to develop a spacecraft for the Oracle mission.
AFRL uses the term XGEO to refer to outer space beyond geosynchronous orbit out to the Moon.
Advanced Space won a $72,000,000 contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory in November 2022 to develop a smallsat previously known as the Cislunar Highway Patrol System.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX partnered to streamline the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) process by accelerating proposal-to-award timelines, expanding the pool of potential applicants to more small businesses, and eliminating bureaucratic overhead through ongoing process improvements in contract execution.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and AFWERX have partnered to expand the pool of potential SBIR/STTR applicants by increasing opportunities for small businesses.
iRocket signed a $1,800,000 contract with the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command funded through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate.
Busek's flight heritage includes products developed for AFRL TacSat-2, USAFA FalconSat-3, FalconSat-5, and NASA/ESA LISA Pathfinder.
The Air Force Research Laboratory project is focused on providing 24-7 persistent command and control capabilities to LEO spacecraft by utilizing GEO constellations that are always in view of ground stations.
Viasat received a $10,000,000 task order from the Air Force Research Laboratory for the Viasat-3 space terminal.
The Air Force Research Laboratory will use the Viasat-3 space terminal for high data rate LEO-to-GEO communications.
The $10,000,000 task order is part of a seven-year contract worth up to $50,000,000 that the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Viasat in 2020 for satellite communications technologies and services.
Viasat plans the AFRL mission to be the first pathfinder demonstration of the company’s space relay service expected to become available in late 2025.
Under the ARBALEST program, Viasat will provide AFRL with a Ka-band space relay payload for integration into a spacecraft for the future AFRL mission.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is supporting development of Arroway, a reusable liquid oxygen and methane staged-combustion engine introduced in August 2022 for medium and heavy launch vehicles that is expected to hotfire in 2025 to support next-generation heavy launch.
Viasat will provide a Ka-band space relay payload to AFRL for integration into a spacecraft under the ARBALEST program.
The AFRL-led ARBALEST mission will demonstrate real-time, global connectivity between DoD low Earth orbit spacecraft and commercial geostationary satellites.
Viasat will provide AFRL with a Ka-band space relay payload for integration into a spacecraft for the AFRL ARBALEST mission.
The Air Force Research Laboratory works with defense contractors and commercial satcom providers under DEUCSI to integrate commercial space internet services with military platforms and weapon systems.
The contract awarded to Northrop Grumman is part of the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program run by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth $80,300,000 to conduct communications experiments using multiple commercial space internet services.