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Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
January 9, 2023 — The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research, or LASR, and personnel from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory celebrated the facility’s 10 years of service to NRL, December 5-6. Signe Redfield, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research, kicked off the two day event opening with an in-depth presentation of the laboratory’s... MORE

Inspired by the pectoral fins of reef fish, particularly the bird wrasse, researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have integrated artificial pectoral fins into a man-portable, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as the Wrasse-inspired Agile Near-shore Deformable-fin Automaton, or WANDA. Much of the development and testing of the WANDA platforms takes place in NRL’s Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) — a multi-environment facility that can emulate tropical, desert, and littoral conditions on-site. Four side-mounted fins, two forward and two aft, provide all the propulsion and control necessary for the vehicle. WANDA can perform low-speed maneuvers including forward and vertical translation, turn-in-place rotation, and station keeping in the presence of waves. (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory – Jamie Hartman) RELEASED

NRL CIRCE Satellites Delivered, Set for Historic 2022 UK Launch
November 17, 2022 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory oversaw the delivery and preparation for launch of its twin 6U CubeSat satellites on Oct. 15 at Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay in the United Kingdom (U.K.). CIRCE is a joint NRL-United Kingdom Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) experiment designed to measure the Earth’s ionosphere and particle radiation environment from a circular orbit at 555 km (344 miles) altitude in a lead/trail formation 300-500 km (186-310 miles) apart in the same orbit plane... MORE

Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE)

NRL Engineers Ready Innovative Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) Payload for Launch
November 9, 2022 — Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST) recently completed robotic payload component level testing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program... MORE

So Little Time: NRL Father and Son-in-Law Construct World’s Smallest Sundial
November 3, 2022 — Two scientists, Jeremy T. Robinson, a Materials Research Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., and Woodruff T. Sullivan III, a former summer student at NRL in the 1960s, came to the consensus of crafting a nano sundial. Nine months later, the invented sundial apparatus was awarded a provisional patent “MicroDial- Miniaturized apparatus for solar time keeping” and won an international contest for the "world’s smallest sundial."... MORE

NRL researcher receives ASME Lifetime Achievement Award
September 7, 2022 — John Michopoulos, Ph.D., U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Computational Multiphysics Systems Laboratory head, received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Lifetime Achievement Award... MORE

NASA’s JWST Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World
September 2, 2022 — Jordan Stone, Ph.D., an astrophysicist in NRL’s Remote Sensing Division is part of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s early release science team for direct observations of exoplanets that released the observations of a super-Jupiter exoplanet, HIP 65426 b, using JWST near-infrared camera and mid-infrared instrument... MORE

NRL fungal experiment launches as Artemis I payload
August 26, 2022 — An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA’s scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon. The experiment will use samples of fungi to investigate effects of the deep space radiation environment outside of Earth’s protective magnetosphere... MORE

Artemis Mission - Fungi to Test Radiation in Space

NRL Launches Quantum Navy YouTube Series
August 1, 2022 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), with the help of Defense Media Activity, is launching a three-part series highlighting the importance of quantum research for the 21st century U.S. Navy... MORE

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