{"id":801609,"date":"2026-04-10T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801609"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:50:30","slug":"indoor-testing-facilities-available-at-the-nasa-unmanned-autonomy-research-complex-nuarc-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801609","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Testing Facilities available at the NASA Unmanned Autonomy Research Complex (NUARC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.\u00a0 The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.\u00a0 A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.\u00a0 The WindProbe utilizes the lab\u2019s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation of the 5-hole cone probe located on the probe tip.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Large dynamic fan array:<\/strong> 9\u2019x7\u2019, 1134 fans arranged as 567 \u2018wind pixels\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Wind speeds:<\/strong> 0 to 16 m\/s (0 to 36 mph\/31 kts)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Acceleration:<\/strong> 4 m\/s<sup>2<\/sup>, <strong>Deceleration:<\/strong> 2.5 m\/s<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Each fan is programmable via Python scripting<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Replicates steady winds, gusts, and wind gradients<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/indoor-testing-facilities-available-at-the-nasa-unmanned-autonomy-research-complex-nuarc\/?rand=772135\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.\u00a0 The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}