Tests and Testing

Flight tests

Stories

133
1625
0
0
30
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed and successfully flight tested a high-performance computing platform, known as the Descent and Landing Computer (DLC), to suit the demands of safe, autonomous, extraterrestrial spacecraft landings for robotic and human exploration missions.
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Manned Systems
What began as a research tool to collect aerodynamic data from research aircraft is now solving technical challenges for NASA.
Feature Image
Articles: Aerospace
Moghbeli has accumulated more than 150 combat missions and 2,000 hours of flight time in more than 25 different aircraft.
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Stratasys Ltd.Eden Prairie, MNwww.stratasys.com Orion is NASA’s spacecraft that will send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. Orion’s next test flight, dubbed Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), will...
Feature Image
Briefs: Aerospace
Modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) will involve future air traffic management (ATM) concepts of operation and technology frameworks that rely on the...
Feature Image
NASA Spinoff: Electronics & Computers
Spinoff is NASA's annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields of...
Feature Image
Briefs: Propulsion
Putting a satellite into low Earth orbit requires a lot of energy, with ground-launched rockets expending two-thirds of their propellant fighting to get through...
Feature Image
Briefs: Aerospace
NASA's Langley Research Center has developed an in-flight global nonlinear aerodynamics modeling and simulation system. The technology replaces the normal labor-intensive iterative...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Motion Control
PC Krause and Associates West Lafayette, INFor more info click here With support from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer...
Feature Image
Articles: Photonics/Optics
ANAHEIM, CA. During this year’s SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2017 conference, panelists from industry, academia, and government demonstrated how miniaturized sensing platforms, and the unmanned aerial...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Although a NASA-built sensor being tested in the Mojave Desert this summer will be used to support the safe landing of rovers on Mars, one of the technology's lead researchers sees...
Feature Image
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have developed software-defined radio (SDR) telemetry transceiver technology to collect and transmit data to and from small...
Feature Image
Articles: Aerospace
NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025, and to Mars in the 2030s. While robotic explorers have studied Mars for more than 40 years, NASA’s path for the human...
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA’s Langley Research Center has developed a new method for calibrating pitot-static air data systems used in aircraft. Pitot-static systems are pressure-based instruments that measure the aircraft’s...
Feature Image
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Modules for Inspection, Qualification, and Verification of Pressure Vessels
After decades of composite over-wrapped pressure vessel (COPV) development, manufacturing variance is still high, and has necessitated higher safety factors and additional mass to be flown on spacecraft, reducing overall performance. When liners are used in COPVs, they need...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Flight Test System for Accurately Predicting Flutter
Traditional methods of flight flutter testing analyze system parameters such as damping levels that vary with flight conditions to monitor aircraft stability. In the past, the actual flight envelope developed for aircraft operation was essentially determined only by flight testing. The edges of...
Briefs: Software
Tool for Rapid Analysis of Monte Carlo (TRAM) Simulation Data
Spacecraft design is inherently difficult due to the complexity of the systems involved and the expense of testing hardware in a realistic environment. The number and cost of flight tests can be reduced by performing extensive simulation and analysis studies to understand vehicle...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Flight Test Maneuvers for Efficient Aerodynamic Modeling
Flight testing is expensive. It is therefore important that necessary flight data be collected in the most efficient manner possible. Inputs traditionally used for flight test maneuvers to collect aircraft stability and control data include doublets, impulses (stick raps), multisteps, and...
Briefs: Aerospace
Adaptive Augmenting Control
Adaptive augmenting control (AAC) is a forward gain, multiplicative adaptive algorithm for launch vehicle flight control that meets three summary-level design objectives: Do no harm — return to baseline control design when not needed; respond to errors in the ability of the vehicle to track commands to increase...
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Tecplot 360 EX data visualization and analysis software Tecplot, Inc. Bellevue, WA 800-763-7005 www.tecplot.com NASA chose Tecplot 360 EX for use in the design of the heat shield for...
Feature Image
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Decelerator System Simulation (DSS)
The Crew Exploration Vehicle Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) project conducts computer simulations to verify that requirements on flight performance, parachute loads, and terminal rate of descent are met. The objective of this work was to obtain a high-fidelity simulation of Orion crew capsule flight test...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Space is cold, dark, and lonely. Deadly, too, if any one of a million things goes wrong on your spaceship. It’s certainly no place for a computer chip to fail, which can happen due to the abundance...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Space-qualified boards and subsystems Aitech Defense Systems Chatsworth, CA 888-248-3248 http://rugged.com/space-products The Boeing Company selected Aitech Defense...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Aerospace
KA Series PCB connectors and D-Sub Series connectors Smiths Connectors Costa Mesa, CA 714-371-1100 www.smithsconnectors.com Development of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle was...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Aerospace
DynoLAB™ data acquisition and control system SAKOR Technologies Okemos, MI 517-332-7256 www.sakor.com SAKOR Technologies has supplied a test system to Southwest Research Institute®...
Feature Image
Application Briefs: Imaging
On March 11, NASA tested the powerful five-segment booster for NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System. To provide critical data for the rocket’s first flight, eight cameras...
Feature Image
Briefs: Aerospace
Real-Time Aerodynamic Parameter Estimation Without Airflow Angle Measurements
Accurate measurements of airflow angles are among the most expensive and difficult to obtain in flight testing because of the complexity of the airflow near the aircraft and the consequent need to carefully mount and calibrate the sensors. A novel technique was developed...
Briefs: Aerospace
Method for Improving Control Systems with Normalized Adaptation by Optimal Control Modification
A new technology has been developed for improving performance and stability of control systems. This method represents a significant advancement in the state-of-the-art of adaptive control technology. The present invention is a new type of adaptive...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Data recorders and software Diversified Technical Systems (DTS) Seal Beach, CA 562-493-0158 www.dtsweb.com It’s no simple task to travel 3,600 miles into space, blaze back through Earth’s...
Feature Image

Videos