2023年5月2日 · WASHINGTON — A U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory cubesat equipped with a Link 16 tactical communications radio will launch to low Earth orbit as early as June on the SpaceX Transporter 8 rideshare.

AFRL’s Small Satellite Portfolio is advancing communications technologies to support the Hybrid Architecture. Through the SSP, AFRL Is developing, testing, and transitioning automation and autonomy tools needed to seamlessly wage all-domain warfare.

2020年6月5日 · The “XVI” program is one of several efforts that AFRL is pursuing that could eventually bring the U.S. military and commercial space companies together to enable new capabilities in a proliferated LEO architecture, said Col. …

2023年10月14日 · XVI is a 12U CubeSat built as a technological demonstrator for ViaSat by Blue Canyon Technologies to evaluate low earth orbit satellites to connect to Link-16 communications terminals for relaying military communications beyond the ground terminals line-of-sight.

2020年5月26日 · Roccor has completed radio frequency testing of the helical L-band antenna (pictured) for the XVI mission, an Air Force Research Laboratory campaign to to demonstrate communications relay with a...

Examples of small satellites (Images by AFRL) WHAT IS IT? The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate’s Small Satellite Portfolio is developing, testing, and transitioning small satellite technologies to support the Hybrid Architecture vision for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. AFRL

2022年5月11日 · 美国卫讯公司 (Viasat Inc)于2019年宣布，他根据美国空军研究实验室航天器XVI计划，已获得航天企业联盟管理员授予的合同，交付和测试第一个具有Link16数据链通信能力的LEO卫星。 随后，卫讯公司选定由蓝色峡谷技术公司 (Blue Canyon Technologies，BCT)来设计和制造一颗XVI立方星，以在低地轨道对Link16军事通信终端进行演示实验。 BCT公司于2019年8月19日宣布要建造一个配备卫讯Link16终端的12单元 (12U，1单元为一个大小 …

2023年6月12日 · AFRL-XVI, 56942 is an American payload satellite in SSO that was launched on Mon, 12 Jun 2023 UTC via an FALCON 9 launch vehicle from the Air Force Western Test Range (AFWTR). Payloads include a variety of satellites, spacecraft, and rockets equipped with specific instruments for various scientific and technological missions.

The firm known for deployable spacecraft structures, is working with BluFlux, an antenna technology specialist, to complete environmental testing of the helical L-band antenna for XVI, an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) program to demonstrate communications relay with a Link 16 terminal on a small satellite.

All about AFRL-XVI (Norad 56942U), its position at any time and when it will pass over your city. Tables and graphs forecast for the next 5 days.