Aeronautics Technology

Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Flight Demos Capabilities
Flight Innovation
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Langley Research Center
NASA researchers successfully completed a high-speed taxi test of a scale model of a design that could make future aircraft more efficient by improving how air flows across a wing’s surface, saving fuel and money. On Jan. 12, the Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) test article reached speeds of approximately 144 mph, marking its […]
Posted January 21, 2026
General
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Technology
Air Traffic Solutions
Airspace Operations and Safety Program
Ames Research Center
UAS Traffic Management
Through a drone flight test at NASA’s Ames Research Center, researchers tested a blockchain-based system for protecting flight data. The system aims to keep air traffic management safe from disruption and protect data transferred between aircraft and ground stations from being intercepted or manipulated. 
Posted January 16, 2026
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Space Biosciences
General
Uncategorized
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley continued to make strides in research, technology, engineering, science, and innovation this past year. Join us as we take a look back at some of the highlights from 2025. From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II By combining the technologies of the NASA Advanced […]
Posted December 18, 2025
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Flights
Supersonic Flight
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is unique – it’s designed to fly faster than the speed of sound, but without causing a loud sonic boom. To confirm the X-59’s ability to fly supersonic while only producing quiet sonic “thumps,” NASA needs to be able to record these sounds from the ground. The agency recently completed tests […]
Posted February 22, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
Earth
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Natural Disasters
UAS Traffic Management
Wildfires
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response.
Posted February 20, 2024
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