Aeronautics

Aeronautics
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Learning Resources
Next Gen STEM
When young minds come together to test their knowledge and creativity in technology and innovation, the results are truly inspiring. In its sixth year, Aerospace Valley Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at East High School in Lancaster, California, proved to be another success.
Posted April 17, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
NASA History
After supporting the center’s research missions for more than a decade, NASA’s S-3B Viking aircraft is moving on from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to begin a new and honorable assignment. The aircraft is heading to the National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, where it will be on display, honoring all Prisoners […]
Posted April 16, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Langley Research Center
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Supersonic Flight
The team behind NASA’s X-59 completed another critical ground test in March, ensuring the quiet supersonic aircraft will be able to maintain a specific speed during operation. The test, known as engine speed hold, is the latest marker of progress as the X-59 nears first flight this year. “Engine speed hold is essentially the aircraft’s […]
Posted March 26, 2025
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
Air Traffic Solutions
Drones & You
General
Natural Disasters
Wildfires
Wildland Fire Management
NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during low-visibility conditions.   From March 17-28, NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project stationed researchers at multiple str
Posted March 25, 2025
Aeronautics
Flight Innovation
Green Aviation Tech
In the future, aircraft with long, thin wings supported by aerodynamic braces could help airlines save on fuel costs. But those same wings could be susceptible to ice buildup. NASA researchers are currently working to determine if such an issue exists, and how it could be addressed. In the historic Icing Research Tunnel at NASA’s […]
Posted March 25, 2025
Ames Research Center
Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
NASA will conduct a live flight test of aircraft performing simulated wildland fire response operations using a newly developed airspace management system at 9 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, March 25, in Salinas, California.
Posted March 18, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry.  Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to re
Posted March 14, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Green Aviation Tech
NASA History
Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]
Posted March 11, 2025
University Leadership Initiative
Aeronautics
Flight Innovation
For Colleges & Universities
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities.  As part of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute directly to real-world flight research while gaining hands-o
Posted March 11, 2025
NASA History
Aeronautics
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos to highlight the history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the ways it transformed flight over four decades.
Posted March 3, 2025
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