NASA was scheduled Monday to demonstrate unmanned aircraft systems at six Federal Aviation Administration-approved UAS test sites across the U.S. as part of a coordinated test for NASA’s traffic management research platform.The space agency said Monday its Ames Research Center would fly up to four drones at each location and monitor the flights from a remote location with the UTM system.
The initiative seeks to help non-NASA operators interact with the UTM research platform at various locations and collect information to help the FAA fine-tune the research effort.
UAS testing sites are located in Alaska, North Dakota, Nevada, New York, Maryland and Virginia.
NASA noted that the demonstration marks the first multi-site test of its UTM research platform and the most number of live UAS flights under the research platform.
