• Ionospheric Tool Expands to South America

    The Scintillation Network Decision Aid (SCINDA), a system designed to specify ionospheric scintillation in real time, has now installed UHF and GPS scintillation monitoring equipment at Apiay Air Base, Colombia. The installation expanded the SCINDA network in South America. SCINDA includes dual

  • AFRL Experiments Fly on One of Last Shuttle Flights

    NASA launched two Air Force Research Laboratory experiments on the Space Shuttle Endeavour on May 16, 2011, as part of a four-experiment package sponsored by the Space Experiments and Review Board and the Space Test Program. MHTEX (Massive Heat Transfer Experiment) and VADER (Variable emissivity

  • Student Satellites Successfully Separate

    Two satellites designed and constructed by students at the University of Texas' Cockrell School of Engineering successfully separated in space March 22, completing the most crucial goal of the mission since its Nov. 19, launch and making them the first student-developed mission in the world in which

  • TacSat-3 Celebrates Milestone, Surpasses Requirements

    AFRL's Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3) celebrates its two-year anniversary on-orbit. The spacecraft was originally designed for six months of operation with a one-year goal. It successfully transitioned from experimental to operational status last year, outliving its design life and surpassing

  • 2012 Air Force Marathon already setting records

    Nearly 4,200 athletes registered for the 2012 Air Force Marathon on Jan. 1, more than doubling the one-day total from last year.With 30 percent of slots already taken, another early sellout is predicted."We added an additional 1,500 spots to bring the total field to 15,000 this year to give more

  • Recycling the right answer for old electronics

    About 25 percent of the presents given each year are electronics, according to the Clean Air Counsel.  With the holiday gift giving season now over, the question is how to dispose of old electronic equipment? Throwing it in the trash only adds to another problem. Americans produce about 250 million

  • Air Force Marathon Registration to open with one-day only special price

    Registration for the Air Force Marathon will open Jan. 1, 2012 at midnight with a special one-day only price.For Jan. 1 only, the full marathon is $75; half marathon is $60; 10K is $35 and the 5K is $20. "We've offered special pricing on January 1st for the last few years and it has helped get our

  • New Measurement Into Biological Polymer Networks

    The development of a new measurement technology, under a research project funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Science Foundation, is probing the structure of composite and biological materials."Our results have provided some of the first microscopic insights into a

  • New Firefighting System Three Times More Effective Than Previous Method

    Air Force Research Laboratory researchers have developed ultra-high pressure (UHP) firefighting technology that is three times more effective than conventional capability and increases the length of time a firefighting vehicle can remain on scene. UHP technology, compared with conventional methods

  • First Hemispherically Shaped Camera Reduces Distortions

    AFRL-funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have developed the first curvilinear, or hemispherically shaped, camera that reduces optical distortions normally associated with flat-sensor camerasThe camera is built from planar silicon