{"id":230566,"date":"2026-02-05T05:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/viridian-inks-cooperative-agreement-with-air-force-research-laboratory"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:22:35","slug":"viridian-inks-cooperative-agreement-with-air-force-research-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/viridian-inks-cooperative-agreement-with-air-force-research-laboratory","title":{"rendered":"Viridian inks cooperative agreement with Air Force Research Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/viridian-inks-cooperative-agreement-with-air-force-research-laboratory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Viridian Space Corp. signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year CRADA will provide the Southern California startup with access to testing facilities and satellite-operations expertise at AFRL\u2019s Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere seems to be a good collaborative opportunity for testing our technology on the ground and, when we fly, collecting and sharing data from the [Very Low Earth Orbit] VLEO environment,\u201d Viridian Space CEO Rostislav Spektor told SpaceNews. \u201cCharacterizing the VLEO environment is important for satellites that fly in VLEO and for satellites traveling to higher orbits that fly through VLEO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Viridian Space Corp. signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The five-year CRADA will provide the Southern California startup with access to testing facilities and satellite-operations expertise at AFRL\u2019s Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. \u201cThere seems to be a good collaborative opportunity for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}