Oct 2, 2019 · NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, operates two Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for high-altitude, long-duration missions. Acquired from the U.S. Air Force, these two aircraft consist of a Block 2 Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration model and a Block 10 initial production model.

Dec 7, 2021 · Flight tests with the algorithm implemented on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are planned for 2016. Researchers will examine how the system performs a fully autonomous emergency landing.

Dec 12, 2024 · The Drones and You page is NASA’s vision for the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission which is to help emerging aviation markets to safely develop an air transportation system that moves people and cargo between places previously not served or underserved by aviation – local, regional, intraregional, urban – using revolutionary new ...

Aug 2, 2023 · NASA’s Office of Earth Science (now the Science Mission Directorate) established a stringent set of requirements for the conventionally powered, remotely or autonomously operated aircraft. Among these requirements was a mission endurance of 24 to 48 hours at a primary altitude range of 40,000 to 65,000 feet with a minimum payload of 660 ...

Nov 17, 2020 · NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System (UAS in the NAS) project began in 2011 and concluded in September 2020. The project identified, developed and tested technologies and procedures to help make it possible for UAS to have routine access to the NAS.

Taking to the sky is what NASA does best—and we want to help entrepreneurs and businesses take flight too! We are offering drone design improvements that can help create the next wave of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

5 days ago · NASA recently began a series of flight tests with partners to answer an important aviation question: What will it take to integrate remotely piloted or autonomous planes carrying large packages and cargo safely into the U.S. airspace? ... Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Beyond-Visual-Line-of Sight Project. This ATM-X subproject ...

NASA's two Global Hawk UAVs, one outfitted as a receiver and the other as a tanker, flew a series of demonstration flights to validate advanced UAV-to-UAV aerial refueling control system technology. The two Global Hawk aircraft successfully flew for the first time as close as 30 feet in …

Ever since UAV's emerged as a reliable science instrument, the technology has been used to augment satellites, balloon flights, and provide spatial/resolution data that falls between cost-effective manned flights and satellite data.

1 day ago · Envision a world where unmanned aircraft deliver goods to your front door and transport passengers in flying taxis, cargo planes cross continents carrying vital trade goods, and fighter jets patrol battle zones—all without a human pilot at the controls. ... That’s why NASA has awarded a $1 million grant through its University Leadership ...