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Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles Subproject

NASA’s Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles (PAAV) subproject is working with partners to safely integrate remote air cargo and air taxi aircraft into our national airspace alongside traditional crewed aircraft.

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NASA Kicks off Testing Campaign for Remotely Piloted Cargo Flights

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? 

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Danah Tommalieh, commercial pilot and engineer at Reliable Robotics, reviews X at mission control in Mountain View, California, ahead of remotely operating a flight of a Cessna 208 aircraft between San Martin and Hollister airports.
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Air Traffic Management Exploration Project

The ATM-X project will transform the air traffic management system to safely accommodate the growing demand of new air vehicles to enter the airspace to perform a variety of missions.

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Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Beyond-Visual-Line-of Sight Project

This ATM-X subproject works to enable the safe use of drones in our everyday lives. This includes supporting operations in a low- altitude airspace, like drone package delivery and public safety operations.

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Airspace Operations and Safety Program

The program enables safe, sustainable, and efficient aviation transportation operations to benefit the flying public and ensure the global competitiveness of the U.S. aviation industry.

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Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

The directorate builds on a legacy of aeronautical research that can trace its origins to the earliest days of powered, heavier-than-air flight. The group remains committed to transforming aviation by improving efficiency while maintaining safety and paving the way for revolutionary aircraft and propulsion for commercial air travel.

Autonomous Vehicle of the Future?

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The Langley Aerodrome No. 8 (LA-8) is a distributed electric propulsion, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that is being used for wind tunnel testing and free flight testing at the NASA Langley Research Center. This is one of many such aircraft NASA and its partners are working with that possibly could become an autonomous vehicle in the future.
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