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 ...

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).

Jan 24, 2025 · The primary objective of ERAST is to develop and transfer advanced technology to an emerging American UAV industry, and to conduct flight demonstrations of those technologies in controlled environments to validate the capability of UAVs to fly operational science missions.

4 days ago · Aptima, which applies expertise in human-autonomy teaming, announced a contract award by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to assist in the research and development of a framework for defining the human-to-UAV ratio for safer and more effective UAV operations. Manned flight today ...

Oct 11, 2023 · The Sensor Integrated Environmental Remote Research Aircraft (SIERRA) is a medium-class, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that can perform remote sensing and atmospheric sampling missions in isolated and often inaccessible regions, such as over mountain ranges, the open ocean, or the Arctic/Antarctic.

5 days ago · The UAV market is poised for explosive growth, with a burgeoning number of commercial, government, and defense applications, from large-scale air transportation in Urban Air Mobility, to delivery ...

Swift's innovation is a UAV designed for at least 30-day endurance (nothing exists like this) mission capabilities; the functionality to station-keep at altitude (50-60 knot cruise speed), the ability to take-off and get to altitude in 1-2 hours, a fully electric system, the ability to store and transport in a 40 ft shipping container, the ease ...

NASA is collaborating with Georgia Tech to design, build and fly a 1000 lb.-class unmanned research aircraft for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) at modest cost and in a relevant timeline.