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)

AEDC's Model Shop's workforce, technological assets remain critical to ground testing

Russell Arbuckle, an ATA inside machinist, operates the computer numerical control (CNC) gantry mill on one of AEDC’s Hypervelocity Ballistic Range G’s gun barrels.

AEDC's Model Shop's workforce, technological assets remain critical to ground testing

Derrick Burton, an ATA inside machinist, operates the Baeyr CNC mill on the Top Tube Reducer for the 4T CTS Pitch and Yaw Assembly.

AEDC, ATA participate in FIRST® LEGO® League competition

Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Deputy General Manager Phillip Stich emceed the Tullahoma Regional FIRST® LEGO® League robotics competition Nov. 19 at East Middle School in Tullahoma. Several Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and ATA employees volunteered at the event for everything from judging to helping organize the competition. FIRST LEGO League is a robotics program for ages 9-14 that is designed to get children excited about science and technology. (Photo by Andrea Stephens)

AEDC's junior engineers showcase their work at Technical Excellence Poster Session

On Nov. 17, Dustin Crider (far left), ATA’s space and missiles test and evaluation technology project manager, presented plaques to David Schwer, Antonina York and Chris Davis, the top three winners of the recent Technical Excellence Poster Session held at AEDC. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

AEDC is location of choice for Small Business Innovation Research test

Dr. Todd Lowe, Applied University Research, Inc., Vice President for research and development inspects a sub-miniature laser Doppler velocimetry (SM LDV) system before it was installed in a small wind tunnel for a test at AEDC. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)

AEDC and UTSI collaborate on cryogenic challenge

From left, UTSI’s Dr. Trevor Moeller and UTSI graduate students James Rogers and Jesse Labello examine the laser that the research team set up in the lab at AEDC’s Building 1077 to conduct a test on measuring the ice buildup on a mirror as part of a cryo-contamination study for detection and possible mitigation applications. Billy Ring, another UTSI graduate (not pictured) worked on this project as well. (Photo by Rick Goodfriend)