{"id":271336,"date":"2025-08-23T02:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?p=904158"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:15:55","slug":"nasa-tests-tools-to-assess-drone-safety-over-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=271336","title":{"rendered":"NASA Tests Tools to Assess Drone Safety Over Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ResilienX employees Angelo Niforatos, left, and Ryan Pleskach, right, overview the NASA safety tools integrated into the company\u2019s commercial system, July 11, 2025, at the ResilienX Headquarters in Syracuse, New York. <\/div>\n
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A future with advanced air mobility aircraft populating the skies will require the U.S. to implement enhanced preflight planning that can mitigate potential risks well before takeoff \u2013 and NASA is working to develop the tools to make that happen. <\/p>\n

Preflight planning is critical to ensuring safety in the complex, high-risk environments of the future airspace. Timely, predictive, and up-to-date risk assessment within a single platform makes it much easier for drone or air taxi operators to check flight plans for high-risk concerns.  <\/p>\n

NASA is working on tools to deliver those services, and in June, the agency and aviation safety company ResilienX Inc. demonstrated how these tools can be integrated into commercial systems.  <\/p>\n

During a series of tests conducted at ResilienX\u2019s facility in Syracuse, New York, researchers used NASA services that allowed flight operators to submit flight plans prior to departure, obtain risk assessment results, and then decide whether to proceed with flights or change their flight plans and re-assess risks. Allowing operators to perform these tasks quickly reduces the safety risk to flight passengers as well as humans on the ground. <\/p>\n

The three NASA-developed services are intended to assess unique risks associated with highly automated aircraft flying at low altitudes over cities.  <\/p>\n

The partnership was managed under a Phase III NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR<\/a>) contract, which is an extension of prior work to assess weather-related risks. This collaboration is already leading to direct technology transfer of safety systems into ResilienX\u2019s platform. The partnership is also intended to provide indirect benefits for ResilienX partners and customers, such as the U.S. Air Force and regional operators, helping to advance the overall safety of future airspace operations.\u202f <\/p>\n

This work is led by NASA\u2019s\u202fSystem-Wide Safety<\/a>\u202fproject under the\u202fAirspace Operations and Safety<\/a>\u202fprogram in support of the agency\u2019s\u202fAdvanced Air Mobility<\/a>\u202fmission. The mission seeks to deliver data, findings, and recommendations to guide the industry\u2019s development of future air taxis and drones. <\/p>\n

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