Flight Innovation

Armstrong Flight Research Center
Artemis 2
Flight Innovation
Flight Opportunities Program
NASA is leveraging expertise, capabilities, and partnerships across its centers to make Artemis campaign and deep space exploration safer, more reliable, and efficient.
Posted February 4, 2026
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
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Innovation
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions.
Posted September 24, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aerosciences Evaluation Test Capabilities
Ames Research Center
Flight Innovation
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Transformational Tools Technologies
Many of us grew up using paint-by-number sets to create beautiful color pictures. For years now, NASA engineers studying aircraft and rocket designs in wind tunnels have flipped that childhood pastime, using computers to generate images from “numbers-by-paint” – pressure sensitive paint (PSP), that is.
Posted July 3, 2025
University Student Research Challenge
Aeronautics
Flight Innovation
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber threats.  The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides student-led team
Posted May 15, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Flight Innovation
Langley Research Center
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options.  Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designed to enable sat
Posted April 22, 2025
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Mobility
Ames Research Center
Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
Drones & You
Flight Innovation
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
NASA engineers began using a network of ground sensors in March to collect data from an experimental air taxi to evaluate how to safely integrate such vehicles into airspace above cities – in all kinds of weather. Researchers will use the campaign to help improve tools to assist with collision avoidance and landing operations and […]
Posted April 18, 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
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
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