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NASA Completes Key Step in Aviation Safety Research

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NASA’s aeronautical innovators have completed a significant step in their pursuit of safer, more efficient aviation technologies that spot hazards…

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NASA Studies Human Pilots to Advance Autonomous Air Taxis

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Air taxis may become an important part of the U.S. transportation ecosystem, quickly carrying people relatively short distances – and…

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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

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NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

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NASA Software Developers Take Autonomy from Simulation to Flight

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Self-flying air taxis may create a new era of transportation opportunities for passengers and cargo, shortening travel time using autonomous…

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NASA is Creating an Advanced Air Mobility Playbook

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NASA is building the system to make soaring over traffic in air taxis, providing public-good missions in the form of…

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NASA Machine Learning Air Traffic Software Saves Fuel

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A NASA air traffic management planning tool has saved more than 24,000 pounds of jet fuel and prevented the release…

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NASA’s Upgraded Mobile Mission Control Center to Analyze Advanced Air Mobility Flight Tests

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NASA recently unveiled a series of upgrades to its Mobile Operations Facility (MOF), a specially outfitted mission control center on…

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For Advanced Air Mobility, Safety is Paramount

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Companies around the world are creating innovative new aircraft designs like electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs), and other…

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Envisioning a Future Airspace with Advanced Air Mobility

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Our future airspace will be safer, greener, and quieter as new NASA research projects enable important advancements in many types…

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Building the Infrastructure for Advanced Air Mobility

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Small drones delivering packages, air taxis carrying passengers, or air ambulance providing lifesaving transportation – these are just some of…

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Advanced Air Mobility Aims to Shorten Travel Time

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In cities like Los Angeles or Atlanta, traffic often determines how early we wake up to travel to work, what…

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University Teams Fly High in Airport Designs of the Future

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Concepts from eight teams participating in the 2022 Gateways to Blue Skies: Airports of Tomorrow (Blue Skies) Competition have been…

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NASA Delivers on Making Gate to Gate Flights More Efficient

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For a team of NASA’s aeronautical innovators working with government and industry partners, the past five years or so were…

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NASA Invites Collaboration to Define Sky for All

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We’ve long held dreams of what the future of air travel could look like. Something out of the Jetson’s TV…

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NASA’s Aviation Tech to Roll Out to Airports, Save Time for Passengers

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Orlando International Airport in Florida Wednesday and met with aviation leaders to discuss implementing aircraft flight…

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What is the Airspace Technology Demonstration 2?

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NASA technology helps air travelers get smoothly from gate to sky. After more than a year of pandemic-related travel restrictions,…

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NASA, Partner to Highlight Passenger-Friendly Aviation Technology

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will visit Orlando International Airport in Florida on Wednesday, Nov. 24 and meet with the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) CEO Phil Brown. They will discuss implementing NASA-developed flight…

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What is Air Traffic Management eXploration?

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Transforming air traffic management to accommodate new air vehicles and demand for increased mobility Operators of new and emerging aircraft…

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NASA Transfers Air Traffic Management Tool Updates to FAA

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As part of an effort aimed at making aviation more sustainable, NASA has transferred findings from an air traffic management…

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NASA, FAA Invite Media to Briefing on Air Traffic Control Updates

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NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a virtual briefing for media Tuesday, Sept., 28 at 1 p.m.…

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NASA Working to Bring Air Mobility Vision to Stratospheric Heights

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When flying on a commercial airliner, it can feel like you’re on top of the world, riding higher than any…

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New Era Begins as Drone Traffic Management Project Wraps Up

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The way we move around cities of the future may be built on it. Great promise lies within it –…

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NASA Takes on Wildfires with Flight Demonstration

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Helping make the battle against wildfires faster, safer, and more targeted, a NASA project recently tested its tools in a…

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NASA Testing Saves Airlines One Million Gallons of Jet Fuel

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Results of an ongoing demonstration of NASA-developed air traffic scheduling technology at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina surpassed a…

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A Story for Axel: Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility with Drones of all Sizes

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In this essay from 2021 — which was originally presented as a three-part web feature — NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer…

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A Story for Axel: Small Drones, Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility

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This is the final part of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn…

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A Story for Axel: Detect and Avoid, Command and Control

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This is the second of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn grandson,…

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A Story for Axel: NASA Drone Projects Achieve Critical Early Work

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This is the first of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn grandson,…

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NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign Helicopter Tests

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NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign, referred to as NC for short, is one step closer to its vision of a…

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NASA and Federal Aviation Administration Sign Collaboration Agreements

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Nearly a century of collaboration between aeronautical innovators who now work for NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will…

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