Rocky Garcia and Wesley James prepare a weather balloon to collect wind data for the Advanced Exploration of Reliable Operation at Low Altitudes: Meteorology, Simulation and Technology campaign. The weather study was at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The focus was to study wind from the ground to 2,000 feet to provide data to assist future drones to safely land on rooftop hubs called vertiports and to potentially improve weather prediction.
NASA Armstrong Supports AEROcAST Wind Study
By Overlook Horizon|2024-04-03T12:09:16-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: AAM, AAM Advanced Air Mobility, Advanced Exploration or Reliable Operation at Low Altitudes: Met, AEROcAST, AFRC, Alta-X, and Technology, atmospheric boundary layer, California, CAS, Convergent Aeronautics Solutions, DROID, Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone, Edwards Air Force Base, improved weather prediction, lidar units, meteorology, micro weather, NASA Armstrong, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Simulation, TACP, Transformative Aeronautical Concepts Program, vertiports, virtual tower, wind study|