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How can the Advanced Refractive Effects Prediction System (AREPS) software be accessed?

How can the Advanced Refractive Effects Prediction System (AREPS) software be accessed?

Can information be provided on high-frequency radios in denied, degraded, and disrupted space operational environments (D3SOEs) for over-the-horizon communications?

Can information be provided on high-frequency radios in denied, degraded, and disrupted space operational environments (D3SOEs) for over-the-horizon communications?

What U.S. manufacturers have experience processing thermoplastic composites on large-acreage aerospace structures (i.e., 4-ft x 6-ft structures with simple or complex curvatures), and do any of them accept outside purchase-order/prototyping work from industry?

What U.S. manufacturers have experience processing thermoplastic composites on large-acreage aerospace structures (i.e., 4-ft x 6-ft structures with simple or complex curvatures), and do any of them accept outside purchase-order/prototyping work from industry?

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Technologist Jamie Meza guides a torpedo anchor prototype as it is lifted over a test bed at the Drop Tower facility. The anchor is being tested for use with offshore wind turbines. (Photo by Craig Fritz)

The Big Drop

Beside a 50-foot-deep pool, a 300-foot metal tower rises into the air at Sandia New Mexico. Cables and a vertical guided trolley attached to the tower allow personnel to hoist objects to varying heights so…

graphic of blue and purple satellite in space

Shape-Shifting Antenna Poised to Transform Communications

By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created an antenna that can change its shape based on its temperature….

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment, Nov. 4, 2024. SPIRRAL, flown by AFRL through the DOD Space Test Program, will characterize the performance of Variable Emissivity Materials, or VEMs, an approach toward solving thermal challenges for space vehicles while on-orbit. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Greg Gerken)

Revolutionizing Space-Based Thermal Systems: AFRL’s SPIRRAL Launch on SPX-31

KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched the Space Power InfraRed Regulation and Analysis of Lifetime, or SPIRRAL, experiment, Nov. 4, 2024. SPIRRAL, flown by AFRL through the DoD…

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