• AFRL Leads Innovation with Texas Instruments Release

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's investment in radiation-hardened components pans out with Texas Instruments' (TI) newest release - a commercially available 16 Mb radiation-hardened memory component. The component, called Static Random-Access Memory, or SRAM, allows the Department of Defense to

  • Deployable Boom Successfully Unfurls

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's deployable boom experiment was successfully unfurled in low-Earth orbit, or LEO, from NASA's NanoSail-D satellite on Jan. 20, 2011. This is the first in-orbit deployment of the Triangular Rollable And Collapsible (TRAC) boom, and the first deployment of a

  • AFRL Program to Enable Solar Cells

    The Air Force Research Laboratory, in cooperation with United Solar Ovonic LLC, established a program to build on technology developed under previous Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects. Taking full advantage of the research and development findings gleaned from SBIR

  • 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