A new lab building at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., will house some of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s “irreplaceable” equipment for testing how electronic spacecraft parts will likely stand up against radiation in space. Also this year at Kirtland, AFRL opened the Skywave Technology ...
Skywave Technology Laboratory
As the Air Force Research Laboratory is studying the space environment in space, it’s also building a new device to simulate the space environment in a lab. Both activities could help the Space Force predict and track the well being of satellites.
Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s two new space-oriented research labs will address two of the Space Force’s top priorities: improving space domain awareness and building a hybrid space architecture less vulnerable to attack.
