Category: Armstrong Flight Research Center

Innovative remotely piloted aircraft are being designed all over the world, but the challenge now is to certify these aircraft to fly in the national …

A Story for Axel: Small Drones, Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

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

NASA Drone Projects Achieve Critical Early Work Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

Understanding how an experimental payload will respond to the conditions of space is crucial to a researcher’s ability to confirm designs or make necessary adjustments …

People will soon be able to “fly” a legendary aircraft Neil Armstrong once piloted at NASA’s Armstrong Fight Research Center in Edwards, California, thanks to …

Researchers from the University of Kentucky in Lexington have developed a delivery system designed to carry research samples and other small payloads from astronauts on …

Patrick Stoliker began to scan the sky as he heard the loud double boom. He and about 320,000 spectators knew that sound signaled the re-entry …

​High voltage ground testing has begun on NASA’s first all-electric X-plane, the X-57 Maxwell. Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

Advanced Air Mobility, or AAM, is shown in this concept image where multiple types of aircraft are depicted flying over urban, suburban and rural areas. …

A remotely piloted solar aircraft has demonstrated it can hover in the stratosphere to provide cellular networks in isolated areas. It also demonstrated remote sensing …

Cutting Edge Ground Recorders Selected to Measure Future X-59 Quiet Supersonic Flights Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

Women at NASA are making history every day by contributing to groundbreaking missions and projects in the areas of space, science and aeronautics. They’re also …

A spacecraft is the sum of many parts – propulsion systems, radiation protection, communications systems, to name a few – and every mission has different …

New discoveries are made each day at NASA, and the agency is looking to the next generation of STEM students to continue advancing mission success. …

Women at NASA are making history every day by contributing to groundbreaking missions and projects in the areas of space, science and aeronautics. Source:: Armstrong …

At one-sixth that of Earth, the unique gravity of the lunar surface is one of the many variable conditions that technologies bound for the Moon …

Aerial inspections of gas and petroleum pipelines were simulated during NASA’s final Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) demonstration flight with partner American Aerospace Technologies Inc. …

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

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign has made significant progress toward planning vehicle flight demonstrations and simulations through industry partnerships. Source:: Armstrong Flight Center …

We’re celebrating Black History Month by recognizing our employees who are leaving an enduring impact on our agency and humanity.| Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

Education was paramount to my upbringing, but the application of that education was even greater. Everything that we learned in our household we learned by …

When the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft comes to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California for flight tests, it will be …

After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater Feb. 18, 2021, a rugged …

NASA Partnership with UC Merced Advances Minority Growth in STEM Education Source:: Armstrong Flight Center       

As NASA’s human spaceflight centers are busy preparing the Orion spacecraft and its components for the early Artemis missions around the Moon, a NASA aeronautics-focused …

NASA’s Day of Remembrance Jan. 30 recognizes astronauts who have perished in the efforts to advance the nation’s reach into space. It’s also a day …

Before air taxis, cargo transport, and package delivery drones take to the sky, service providers must practice their scripts…software programming scripts, that is. And NASA …

NASA’s DC-8 aircraft returned to the skies on Jan. 6 after more than a year of heavy maintenance, which included an overhaul to all four …

Despite challenges with the global pandemic, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California continued agency work in a mostly remote environment Source:: Armstrong Flight Center …

With confidence in a bright future for the aviation community, NASA’s aeronautical innovators this past year persevered to accomplish their mission to explore advances in …

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, California, to provide support for the community overflight response phase of the agency’s Low-Boom Flight Demonstration …

Everything from satellite-assisted search-and-rescue missions, to a drill developed for the Mars Perseverance rover that’s now aiding geologists on Earth – shows that the sky …

A system originally developed to collect distributed strain and temperature measurements on aircraft has been enhanced to support future NASA space missions. Source:: Armstrong Flight …

NASA has selected Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. (NGSC) of San Diego to provide demonstration engineering, manufacturing, and technical support for the Global Hawk Skyrange program …

A key milestone moment was reached Nov. 5 for the team putting together NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works factory …

During a flight window opening Dec. 11, 2020, evolved versions of two NASA-supported technologies that have flown previously through Flight Opportunities will be put to …

NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign (NC) project conducted testing and painted a vertiport and helipads in preparation for the NC Integrated Dry Run …

NASA has selected Virgin Galactic LLC of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Masten Space Systems Inc. of Mojave, California, to provide flight and integration services …

Two NASA centers on opposite sides of the countries are finding new ways to work together to support the agency’s mission to develop quiet supersonic …