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The program is an Air Force Research Laboratory "Vanguard" program, a top importance science and technology research and development program. At the time of announcement, it was one of four such programs for the United States Department of the Air Force. The program is to examine modifying existing commercially available hardware for the ...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research and development detachment of the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of direct-energy based aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and providing warfighting capabilities to United States air ...
This category is for articles related to projects at the Air Force Research Laboratory. Pages in category "Air Force Research Laboratory projects" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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The first flight was completed at Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs facility (Air Force Plant 42) in Palmdale, California on June 2, 2009 by the Air Force Research Laboratory in conjunction with Lockheed Martin. [5] In October 2009, the ACCA demonstrator was designated X-55A by the USAF. Over the course of the program, 15 to 20 ...
The complex consists of two launch pads, LC-18A, which was originally built by the US Navy for the Vanguard rocket, and LC-18B, which was originally by the US Air Force used for tests of the PGM-17 Thor missile. The first launch from LC-18 was a Viking rocket from LC-18A on 8 December 1956, on a test flight for Project Vanguard. A further ...
On July 19, 2006 Rocketdyne announced that the demonstrator engine front-end had been operated at full capacity. [3]According to NASA, the Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator project was the first of three potential phases of the Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology Program, which was aimed at demonstrating technologies that double the capability of state-of-the-art cryogenic ...
ANGELS was launched by a Delta-4M+(4,2) rocket in 2014 as a secondary payload on the AFSPC-4 (GSSAP 1, 2) mission. [3] It was delivered directly into GEO, and had a planned operating duration of one year. The satellite met various space situational awareness mission objectives and was eventually decommissioned in November 2017. [4]