AEDC’s Taylor Swanson supports SBIR project on space asset threat containment technologies

Military and civilian satellites can be subjected to natural and manmade signal disruptions. A Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project currently underway to simulate that disruption is taking place between Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) at Peterson AFB, Colo., AEDC and Welkin Sciences, Inc., Colo. The goal is to develop a MILSATCOM Atmospheric Scintillation Simulator or MASS to test the efficiency of satellite’s capabilities to operate regardless of scintillation. Pictured is an artist’s rendering of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Space Vehicle-1, launched in August 2010. (Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force Space Command)

AEDC supports SBIR commercialization readiness program project on pyrophoric fuel valve

AEDC engineers ran a series of tests on a Towed Airborne Plume Simulator (TAPS) at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s Rocket Prep Area 4. (Photo by David Housch)

Technical Excellence Poster Winners

AEDC Engineer Jesse Labello (left) receives a second place Technical Excellence Poster Session award from presenter Col. Raymond Toth, AEDC commander. (Photo by Jacqueline Cowan)

Technical Excellence Poster Winners

Eric Marineau (left), an AEDC Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 engineer, receives a first place Technical Excellence Poster Session award from presenter Dan Marren, AEDC Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 director. (Photo by Arnold Collier)

AEDC's Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory: 60-years plus of unrivaled mission support into the future and beyond

AEDC PMEL Instrument Technician Danny Myers calibrates a pressure controller using a primary pressure standard. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

Test at AEDC helping determine feasibility of high energy lasers for the warfighter

The gap between the AEDC Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit’s nozzle and diffuser was widened to 54 inches in order to increase flexibility during Air Force Research Laboratory testing and allow more of the test article. Before making the modification, AEDC engineers used Computational Fluid Dynamics to ensure the work would not affect the test. The modification was one of several made to accommodate AFRL for its testing. (Photo provided)