Naval Research Laboratory

NRL RAIDS experiment advances ionospheric remote sensing

Naval Research Laboratory scientists have obtained a first-ever measured altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission that provides vital information needed to test and improve ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NRL charges Marine Corps expeditionary power requirements

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Electronic Science and Technology Division are working to help the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reduce expeditionary energy supply needs and risks and increase ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Experiment explores optics with iPad

As any other dutiful scientist, Dr. Weilin "Will" Hou, an oceanographer in the Oceanography Division at NRL Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC), did his research. Earlier last summer, he decided the hottest tablet ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify new coupling mode between stratosphere and ionosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have identified a new mode of coupling between the stratosphere — which can drive variations at the summer mesopause — and the ionosphere, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NRL scientists optimize arctic sea ice data products

Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Geosciences Division are assisting NASA, the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NRL tests robotic fueling of unmanned surface vessels

Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights greater than ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

TacSat-4 enables polar region SatCom experiment

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter HEALY (WAGB 20) successfully experimented with NRL's TacSat-4 communications satellite, Jan. 24, by communicating from the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska to Coast Guard ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Navy researchers investigate small-scale autonomous planetary explorers

Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers at the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Faster colloidal fluorescence emitters: Nanoplatelets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Significant advances in the application of colloidal structures as light emitters and lasers may soon be realized following the discovery of very fast fluorescence emission rates in colloidal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Autonomous deployment demonstration program completes flight testing

The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) program. The final demonstration took place Sept. 1 at the Yuma ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NRL Monterey develops more accurate tropical cyclone prediction model

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD), Monterey, Calif., have developed the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System Tropical Cyclone (COAMPS-TC) ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NRL's MIGHTI selected by NASA for potential space flight

A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a future science mission that has been selected by NASA for evaluation for flight.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Navy's modern airship receives historical identification

Unveiled at a ceremonious ribbon-cutting event, Oct. 26 at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, NAWCAD and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, reveal the MZ-3A airship now ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1