Armstrong Flight Research Center - United Kingdom

A yellow traffic cone and a black tripod with black testing instruments stands in the foreground on a concrete pad with a desert landscape, power lines, and a black and white aircraft in the background. The aircraft has six black propellors that sit on white arms and connect to the aircraft body, which has black doors and is pod-shaped. The aircraft sits on three small wheels.

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NASA Studies Wind Effects and Aircraft Tracking with Joby Aircraft

19 April 2025

NASA engineers began using a network of ground sensors in March to collect data from an experimental air…

A plane begins to ascend from the runway on dim desert morning, heading toward the left of the frame. The wheels of the plane are still dropped and the nose of the plane is pointed upward toward higher skies, its tail featuring the NASA insignia. The helmeted pilot inside is barely visible through the cockpit window. Below a desert landscape with indiscernible buildings are flanked by a hazy mountain range in the distance.

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Testing in the Clouds: NASA Flies to Improve Satellite Data

17 April 2025

In February, NASA’s ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.…