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Howard Named 2019 AGU Fellow, Discusses His 50-Year Space Science Career
December 12, 2019 — Russell Howard, head of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Flight Projects Section, received recognition as an American Geophysical Union Fellow in 2019 in commemoration of his more than 50-years of service and many contributions to the scientific community... MORE

NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
December 11, 2019 — A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades... MORE

NRL, NASA Combine to Produce Sun Imagery with Unprecedented Clarity
December 4, 2019 — Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s camera on NASA’s latest mission to study the Sun’s corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined... MORE

NRL Plasma Physics Division Seeking External Users for Space Chamber
November 12, 2019 — The blackness of space is deceptive. It looks empty. It’s not... MORE

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ‘connects the dots’ for quantum networks
November 12, 2019 — Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) developed a new technique that could enable future advancements in quantum technology... MORE

Researchers develop new manufacturing process for ultrathin flexible crystalline silicon solar cells
November 12, 2019 — In February, researchers at the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) submitted a patent application for a new method of manufacturing ultrathin flexible silicon solar cells... MORE

NRL Tests Sensor On-orbit the ISS to Protect Space-Based Assets
November 12, 2019 — Developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division, in conjunction with the Spacecraft Engineering Department, the Space PlasmA Diagnostic suitE (SPADE) experiment launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station onboard the SpaceX Dragon resupply mission (CRS-17), May 4... MORE

NRL Researchers Find Insights into the Formation of the Solar System in Ancient Comet Dust
November 12, 2019 — Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant of ancient dust from the early stages of the solar system inside a primitive meteorite, named La Paz Icefield 02342 after the location of its discovery in Antarctica... MORE

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