NASA Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission

Davis HackenbergAAM Mission Manager, AAM Mission Office

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March 23, 2020

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

• Includes “rural” and “urban” applications– cargo transport, pax-carrying, aerial work, etc. – eVTOL, sUAS, eCTOL, hybrid-electric, etc.– Urban Air Mobility (UAM) as a challenging use-case

with high benefit

• Enabled by electrification and scaled through automation

• Does not include:– Supersonic or hypersonic transport– Existing hub-and-spoke air service with large transport

aircraft

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Safe, sustainable, affordable, and accessible aviation for transformational local and intraregional missions

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Mission

UML - 4

UML - 3

UML - 2

DistributionCenter/Warehouse

Inter-CityeCTOL

Inter-cityeCTOL

Cargo Delivery

MedicalTransfer

Cross-metroTransfer

AirportTransfer

CargoDelivery

FleetOperations

AirAmbulance

Small Package Delivery

High DensityCorridor

RegionalNetwork

Rural Operations Urban Operations On DemandAir-Taxi

Develop validated AAM System Architectures that define a safe, certifiable, and scalable system

NASA Research to enable National Campaigns

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2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Industry proposed UML-1 unlock

Industry proposedUML-2 unlock

Industry proposed UML-3 unlock

Industry proposedUML-4 unlock

2026 2027 2028

Complex Operations

High Volume Vertiports

Scaled Demo

Reduce risk of industry UML- 3&4 timeline…

NC-DT

Developmental Testing

NC-1

Operational Safety

Help catalyze UML 1, 2… Legend

Automation Research and Capability Development

Integration of Automated Systems Flight Testing

GC Series and Operational Demonstrations

NC-2

NC-3

NC-4

UML ”unlocks” based on a range of publicly available industry projections; not a consensus view

NASA AAM Mission Priorities

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Source and Fleet Noise

Vehicle Propulsion Reliability

Safety in Environmental and Failure conditions

Distributed Electric Propulsion

Automated Flight and Contingency Management

m:N Pilots to Aircraft

Human Response to Noise

Regional M&S Capabilities AAM Airspace and Supplemental Data Services

In-time Aviation Safety Management System

xTM Architectures

Operational Rules, Roles, & Procedures

Comm, Nav, Surveillance, Information

Airspace System Design &

Implementation

Airspace & Fleet Operations

Management

Vehicle Development &

Production

Individual Vehicle Management &

Operations

Community Integration

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5

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Aircraft & Aircrew BarriersAirspace BarriersCommunity Integration BarriersPillar number

Assured Automated Architectures

AAM System Architecture

National Campaign

High Density Microplex