Address
2000 Wyoming Blvd SE
29 Randolph Road
Albuquerque, NM 01731-3010
United StatesDescription
Located at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., the Space Vehicles Directorate serves as the Air Force's center of excellence for space technology research and development. The Space Vehicles Directorate develops and transitions space technologies to provide space based capabilities to the warfighter always addressing affordability, efficiencies, and operations need. The Directorate operates on 438,000 square feet of laboratory and office space. It supports over 50 state-of-the-art research laboratories and testing structures at Kirtland as well as a unique high altitude balloon program at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Leading the nation in space supremacy research and development, the Space Vehicles Directorate consists of an integrated team of 900-plus military, civilian, and on-site contractors.
Tech Areas
- Early launch detection
- Imaging
- Industrial chemistry & process engineering
- Inorganic
- Integrated microsystems
- Ionospheric impacts on RF systems
- IR clutter assessment
- Lasers
- Active sensors
- Advanced space-based dectectors
- Airborne and orbital missions
- Antenna technology
- Astrophysics
- Cosmic background radiation
- Dark matter
- Desalination technology
- Manufacturing
- Geoastrophysics
- Ground-based experiments
- Balloon-borne experiments
- Battlespace environment
- Chemical
- Component development
- Electronics
- Energy
- Environmental
- Organic chemistry
- Photonics
- Membranes
- Satellite awareness protection
- Sensors
- Simulation and technology assessment
- Solar coronal observations
- Solar mass ejection imager
- Space electronics
- Space focal plane arrays
- Space situational awareness
- Space-based infrared technology
- Spacecraft technology
- Spectral polarimetry
