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New Era Begins as Drone Traffic Management Project Wraps Up
One NASA project helped invent a whole new type of air traffic management. Here’s a brief…
New NASA Challenge to Fund and Test Small Spacecraft Technologies
NASA is inviting commercial businesses, academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and other innovators to compete in a new…
AAS Names New NASA-Affiliated Fellows, Legacy Fellows
Thirteen scientists working at or affiliated with NASA have been recently named Fellows of the American…
Microscopic Superheroes to Help Protect Astronaut Health in Space
The tardigrade, a microscopic animal able to survive in some of the most extreme environments, is…
Perfecting Alignment: NASA Tests System for Aircraft Positioning in Supersonic Flight
The Airborne Location Integrating Geospatial Navigation System (ALIGNS) was developed to prepare for future acoustic validation…
NASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study…
NASA’s National Campaign Dry Run Tests Conclude
An Integrated Dry Run test using a helicopter for NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign…
A Story for Axel: Small Drones, Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility
A Story for Axel: Small Drones, Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility Click here…
A Story for Axel: Detect and Avoid, Command and Control
This is the second of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke…