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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — A dual-mirror system, called the Aerospace Relay Mirror System, suspended from a crane at 100 feet above the ground, is being tested here. The system is a prototype designed to extend the range of high-energy lasers by receiving and redirecting laser energy. Developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, an operational version might be suspended from a high-altitude airship at an altitude of 70,000 feet, where atmospheric turbulence, or jitter, is less of a problem for beam quality. (Air Force photo)


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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — A dual-mirror system, called the Aerospace Relay Mirror System, suspended from a crane at 100 feet above the ground, is being tested here. The system is a prototype designed to extend the range of high-energy lasers by receiving and redirecting laser energy. Developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, an operational version might be suspended from a high-altitude airship at an altitude of 70,000 feet, where atmospheric turbulence, or jitter, is less of a problem for beam quality. (Air Force photo)

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Jamin Greenbaum, The University of Texas at Austin's Nanosatellite-3 FASTRAC program manager (middle), and Eric Rogstad, The University of Texas at Austin's Nanosatellite-4 project manager (right), assisted by a Jackson and Tull engineer, prepare one of the FASTRAC halves for structural testing at AFRL's Space Vehicles Directorate here. (Air Force photo)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.— Close up view of a chalcogenide random access memory (C-RAM) chip, which can reliably store four million bits of data in space. (Air Force photo by Michael P. Kleiman)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Following an evaluation in May 2004 at Sandia National Laboratories' hypervelocity launcher, the micro-meteoroid impact experiment apparatus exhibits the after effects of being shot with a projectile traveling at speeds in excess of 40,000 miles per hour. (Air Force photos)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Positioned in the Sandia National Laboratories' hypervelocity launcher, the micro-meteoroid impact experiment apparatus awaits a shot from the light gas gun during the initial trials conducted in May 2004.
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — Creigh Gordon, Field Programmable Gate Array program manager, Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, holds a copy of the small, radiation-hardened computer chip used in the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997. The FPGA Program is currently working with two contract companies to provide an updated version of the semiconductor device to employ in the next generation of Air Force spacecraft. (Air Force photo by Michael P. Kleiman)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Contract Engineer Eric Pollard works on a deployable structure for the cosmos at the Space Vehicles Directorate here. He was selected for a 2006 - 2007 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, and will be attending the University of Colorado at Boulder to complete his doctoral studies beginning in August 2006. (Air Force photo by Michael P. Kleiman)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — A completed mini-Agile Multi-Purpose Satellite Simulator displaying three flywheel mass simulators that spin between 16,000 and 40,000 revolutions per minute. The Space Vehicles Directorate here hopes to demonstrate the innovative technology of combined attitude control and energy storage on a satellite. (Air Force Photo)
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Edwards Research Site helped static-fire the third Aerojet Block B Solid Rocket Booster for the Atlas V system. (Air Force photo)
It took scientists years to develop the deployable optical telescope designed to fit into a typical rocket body. (Air Force photo)
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFMCNS) -- NanoSat-2 (two satellites sitting on the triangular white stand, lower left-hand corner) undergo integration and testing at Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The Boeing Delta-IV heavy is on the right with DemoSat (the other payload) on top of it. (Air Force photo courtesy of Scott Franke)