# UAS in the NAS – NASA

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- NASA to Help Local Governments Plan for Advanced Air Mobility Five state and local government entities have signed agreements with NASA’s aeronautical innovators to work together in considering how emerging cargo-carrying drone and passenger-carrying air taxi services can best be included in their civic transportation plans. The five cooperative activities will take place through summer of 2022, each including a series of at least four [&#8230;]
- A Story for Axel: Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility with Drones of all Sizes In this essay from 2021 &#8212; which was originally presented as a three-part web feature &#8212; NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn grandson, Axel, the story about how two recently concluded major air traffic management research projects will help achieve a long-held vision for the future of aviation. Well, Axel, it’s just [&#8230;]
- A Story for Axel: Small Drones, Big Ideas for Better Air Mobility This is the final part of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn grandson, Axel, the story about how two recently concluded research projects will help achieve a long-held vision for the future of aviation. In part one and part two, Axel heard about the goals and achievements [&#8230;]
- 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 tells his newborn grandson, Axel, the story about how two recently concluded research projects will help achieve a long-held vision for the future of aviation. In part one Axel was introduced to the UAS in the NAS project. The [&#8230;]
- A Story for Axel: NASA Drone Projects Achieve Critical Early Work This is the first of a three-part series in which NASA Aeronautics’ senior writer Jim Banke tells his newborn grandson, Axel, the story about how two recently concluded research projects will help achieve a long-held vision for the future of aviation. Well, Axel, it’s just you and me. Everyone else in the house is asleep, [&#8230;]
- Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) drone flights at Moffett Field In June and August 2020, researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California conducted Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight tests of drone aircraft at Moffett Field at Ames.&#160; The purpose of the flight test was to investigate the feasibility of a concept called Time-Based Conformance Monitoring (TBCM).&#160; Conformance monitoring is an important task of air [&#8230;]
- Webinar: Safe Flight for Drones – Designing a System for Urban Air Mobility During the fall of 2019, a trio of free webinars were presented by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the National Space Grant Program. They were produced by Old Dominion University at their studio in Norfolk, Virginia. Each of the sessions featured conversations with NASA researchers who are working on key areas of interest that [&#8230;]
- NASA Contracts to Demonstrate Unmanned Aircraft Technologies NASA has signed contracts with three industry partners in a bid to demonstrate progress in the use and eventual certification of systems critical to the safe operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). The demonstration is known as the Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) activity and will take the form [&#8230;]
- NASA Flies Large Unmanned Aircraft in Public Airspace Without Chase Plane for First Time NASA’s remotely-piloted Ikhana aircraft, based at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, successfully flew its first mission in the National Airspace System without a safety chase aircraft on Tuesday. This historic flight moves the United States one step closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in the airspace used by commercial and private [&#8230;]
- UAS Integration in the NAS Phase 2 Abstracts FY2017-2020 Editor’s note: The UAS in the NAS project was concluded in September 2020. This material is being kept online for historical purposes, but it will no longer be updated. UAS Integration in the NAS Abstracts NOTE: Abstracts are listed by publication date, newest first. Detect and Avoid (DAA) Detect-and-Avoid Closed-Loop Evaluation of Noncooperative Well Clear [&#8230;]