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The lift-off of TacSat-4 from Kodiak Alaska marks the 100th satellite launch for the NRL Center for Space Technology and the beginning of a three-year experimental mission tasked with improving battlefield communications in the high latitudes.
Edison plans world's greatest research lab. (Click to see the NRL video.)
The MZ-3A is a lighter-than-air (LTA) airship transferred, in 2010, to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Military Support Division Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1). Built by American Blimp Corporation, the MZ-3A is the first Navy owned airship in operation since 1962.
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence develops software for cognitive robotics and human interaction using robots such as Octavia.
Located high above Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the NRL - Chesapeake Bay Detachment (CBD) tests radar antenna properties, radar remote sensing concepts, use of radar to sensor ocean waves, and laser propagation.
High Expansion (HiEx) foam protects large volume mission-critical spaces. In shipboard fire fighting applications, HiEx foam expands to fill up the volume of flammable spaces in minutes, flowing around obstructions that previously mandated manual firefighting.
Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) is a fire-started or augmented thunderstorm that, in its most extreme manifestation, injects huge abundances of smoke and other biomass burning emissions into the lower stratosphere — a dynamic being researched by meteorologist at the NRL Middle Atmosphere Physics Section.
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NRL is the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. NRL has served the Navy and the nation for over 85 years and continues to meet the complex technological challenges of today's world.
January 27, 2012
An NRL scientist is part of a team that has recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth.
January 23, 2012
NRL's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space.
January 19, 2012
Karl Battams has a paper published in the 20 January 2012 issue of Science reporting the observation of a Kreutz-group comet within the solar atmosphere.
January 6, 2012
The Naval Research Laboratory published nearly 100 news stories in 2011, covering topics ranging from robotics to climate change to bio-molecular science and engineering. Here is a look back at NRL's 11 most viewed stories of 2011.
January 5, 2012
Five NRL scientists and staff members were recently afforded the unique opportunity to embark a Navy oceanographic survey ship for a cruise and return home the same day.
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