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  • 2,500 solid rocket motors tested at AEDC

    With the recent Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) test at the J-6 Large Rocket Motor Test Facility, the 2,500th solid rocket motor has been tested at AEDC.Joe Migliaccio, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Lead Rocket Propulsion Test Operations, stated this achievement is worth

  • New AFMC mission, vision statements emphasize agility

    New mission and vision statements are the foundation of a new command strategy designed to push Air Force Materiel Command to be more agile as it delivers war-winning support to the warfighter.The command's new mission statement is succinct but declarative: "deliver and support agile war-winning

  • AEDC awards new Test Operations and Sustainment contract

    The contracting office at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) awarded the Test Operations and Sustainment contract; this contract will ensure AEDC remains the nation's ground test and evaluation facility of choice... today and tomorrow.National Aerospace Solutions, LLC (NAS), Reston VA, a

  • AEDC conducts space environment test for U.S. Navy

    The Space and Missiles Combined Test Force (CTF) at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) recently completed its first Space Threat Assessment Test & Evaluation (STAT) for the U.S. Navy.Engineers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division requested several candidate

  • Technology project at Range G focuses on boundary layer transition testing

    Boundary layer transition tests have not occurred in the hypervelocity ballistic Range G facility at Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) for many years but this is changing as a result of a new technology project.The purpose of a boundary layer transition test is to measure the location on

  • Orion parachute testing conducted at AEDC NFAC facility

    Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) engineers at the National Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) assisted in recent testing of sub-scale parachutes for the next mission of the Orion spacecraft, Exploration Mission-1.The testing, conducted in January in the 80-by 120-foot wind tunnel by

  • AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 hits 4,000-run mark

    One of AEDC's world-unique test facilities has achieved an important milestone.The staff at Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Md., celebrated the successful completion of 4,000 test runs. The milestone occurred Jan. 15 as the Tunnel 9 team was testing the U.S. Air Force Conventional Strike