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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

NRL kicks off Combined Federal Campaign with fall festival 2019
October 30, 2019 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory employees gathered on the campus mall to celebrate the launch of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) of the National Capital Area with a festive fall event involving live music, food trucks, ice cream, games, and local charities Oct. 17... MORE

Novel NRL instrument enhances ability to measure nuclear materials
October 30, 2019 — Researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) designed and built an instrument called NAUTILUS to provide new measurement capabilities unlike those available at other laboratories to measure nuclear, cosmo/geo-chemical, and electronic materials... MORE

Researchers transmit energy with laser in ‘historic’ power-beaming demonstration
October 22, 2019 — It was the second day of a three-day-long tech demonstration at the David Taylor Model Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where attendees had gathered to stand around in the dark to look at something they mostly couldn’t see... MORE

NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite
October 10, 2019 — A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver unprecedented information to help scientists investigate how both terrestrial and solar weather impact the ionosphere, the ionized region of Earth’s upper atmosphere. ICON launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Oct. 10... MORE

Naval Academy Displays NRL’s Enduring Presence in Space Research
October 1, 2019 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the U.S. Naval Academy Museum combined resources to tell the story of how the Navy ushered in our nation’s presence in space. The USNA exhibit “Sea, Sun and Space” displays, through visual artifacts and curated narrative, the pioneering role NRL and its collaborators and sponsors played in the future of space exploration... MORE

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