Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

At a simulated 27,500 feet inside an altitude chamber at NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) facility, engineers at magniX recently demonstrated the capabilities of a battery-powered engine that could help turn hybrid electric flight into a reality. This milestone, completed in April 2024, marks the end of the first phase in a series of altit

Posted June 18, 2024

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

2024 Dream with Us Design Challenge Winners

Congratulations! Our 2024 Dream with Us challenge has concluded, and we are pleased to share the winning projects: Middle School 1st Place: The Unstoppable Changemakers Team (Anika J. and Aidan R.) Fire Drones is a system of drones that battle wildfires.

Posted May 22, 2024

System-Wide Safety

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Airspace Operations and Safety Program

System-Wide Safety Collaborations

NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project identifies and addresses safety threats to improve the efficiency of flight and access to airspace.

Posted May 21, 2024

Aeronautics

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Green Aviation Tech

Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core

NASA to Start Designing More Sustainable Jet Engine Core

NASA, alongside industry, will soon begin designing a new jet engine concept for the next generation of ultra-efficient airliners — officially graduating to the project’s next phase.

Posted May 18, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Flight Innovation

Transformational Tools Technologies

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling

NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work.

Posted May 17, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Flights

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight

NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]

Posted May 15, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Glenn Research Center

Green Aviation Tech

NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research

Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable. The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine compon

Posted April 29, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Advanced Air Mobility

Advanced Air Vehicles Program

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Drones & You

Flight Innovation

Glenn Research Center

Langley Research Center

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology

NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility mission to see early in the aircraft development process how design elements like propellors or wings would perform.

Posted April 4, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Center Innovation Fund

Flight Innovation

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets

NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets – doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically.

Posted March 13, 2024

NASA Headquarters

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Artemis

Budget & Annual Reports

Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate

Mission Support Directorate

NASA Directorates

Science Mission Directorate

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA to Highlight Artemis, US Space Leadership During Annual Address

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will discuss the agency’s goals for the benefit of humanity during the annual State of NASA address on Monday, March 11. The event will coincide with the release of the Biden-Harris Administration’s fiscal year 2025 budget proposal. The event will air live at 1 p.m. EDT on NASA+, NASA Television, the […]

Posted March 8, 2024