Clementine 25th Anniversary Video
April 1, 2019Clementine was placed in lunar orbit on February 19, 1994, completing its highly successful lunar mapping mission. Clementine left orbit in early May 1994, but not before amassing a collection of 1.8 million lunar images. Clementine offered many benefits to the U.S. space program. Along with its primary military mission to qualify lightweight technology, it returned valuable lunar data for the international civilian scientific community that exceeded mission science objectives. Clementine showed the capability of the national laboratories, working in conjunction with DoD, NASA, industry, and international space organizations, to integrate, execute, and operate meaningful space missions at low cost. More
Produced by Jonathan Sunderman, NRL Strategic Communication Office
Edited by MC1 John Bellanger, NRL Strategic Communication Office
NRL Overview Video
February 26, 2019Our talented team at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory drives innovative advances in science, technology and engineering from the seafloor to space and in the information domain. We develop, collaborate, and produce powerful results to maintain our nation’s agility and global maritime superiority. More
Building a Safe Home for Bluebirds
January 1, 2019As a part of NRL's environmental division, Alisha Sutton, with the help of volunteers from Calvert County's Natural Resources, takes on the task of building nest boxes for blue birds at Chesapeake Bay Detachment in Chesapeake Beach, MD. More
Transparent Armor
September 21, 2018Spinel is actually a mineral, it's magnesium aluminate, says Dr. Jas Sanghera, who leads the research. The advantage is it's so much tougher, stronger, harder than glass. It provides better protection in more hostile environments—so it can withstand sand and rain erosion.
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NRL's WISPR: Providing Valuable Data to NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission
May 4, 2018The Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) is an instrument that is on the NASA's Parker Solar Probe. The Parker Solar probe is a revolutionary mission, which will go deep in the heart of the sun's corona. More
Produced by Jonathan Sunderman of the Strategic Communications Office.
Vanguard 60th Anniversary: A Look Back
March 15, 2018Launched by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, March 17, 1958, Test Vehicle 4 (TV4), better known as Vanguard I, was the second satellite launched by the U.S., the first successful satellite of the Vanguard series, and the first satellite to use solar cell power. It is the oldest satellite still orbiting the Earth More
Produced and Edited by James Marshall, Strategic Communications Office
Wave-Ice Modeling
February 7, 2018The Naval Research Laboratory's Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch performs basic and applied research in computer modeling of ocean hydro/thermodynamics (i.e., ocean circulation and density structure), modeling of ice dynamics, computational numerical techniques, data assimilation, and the analysis of satellite oceanographic data as related to the development of modeling and data assimilation capabilities. More
Produced by Jonathan Sunderman of the Office of Strategic Communications
NRL's Sediment Dynamic Section
August 18, 2017NRL's Sediment Dynamic Section's mission is to make predictions of the subaqueous environment for the Navy and exploit these predictions to improve underwater acoustic communications, improve the ability to find buried objects and the Navy's capacity to put troops on the beach. More
Produced by Jonathan Sunderman Strategic Communications Office
NRL Highlights Radar Accomplishments during Midway 75th Anniversary
June 4, 2017This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, which is believed by many to be the turning point of World War II in the Pacific theater, and one of the seminal events in our Navy’s history. More
Produced by Jonathan Sunderman Strategic Communications Office
Rechargeable 3-D Zinc Battery
June 3, 2017Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Chemistry Division have developed a safer alternative to fire-prone lithium-ion batteries, which were recently banned for some applications on Navy ships and other military platforms. More
Produced by NRL Technical Information Services Branch