NASA intends to use NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) for its Urban Air Mobility (UAM) platform, an air transportation system with numerous applications including drone deliveries and passenger drones. The MBS system was selected by NASA for its ability to facilitate missions where GPS signals cannot be relied upon to locate a drone’s horizontal and vertical location, which is essential to the success of drone operations in urban areas. “Today’s announcement marks another step forward toward realizing NASA’s vision of creating a new generation of unmanned aircraft that can safely fly over cities without GPS, or other ground-based navigation aids,” said Jim ’s MBS will form part of the City Environment for Range Testing of Autonomous Integrated Navigation (CERTAIN) research facilities at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.
NASA intends to use NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) for its Urban Air Mobility (UAM) platform, an air transportation system with numerous applications including drone deliveries and passenger drones. The MBS system was selected by NASA for its ability to facilitate missions where GPS signals cannot be relied upon to locate a drone’s horizontal and vertical location, which is essential to the success of drone operations in urban areas. NextNav’s MBS will form part of the City Environment for Range Testing of Autonomous Integrated Navigation (CERTAIN) research facilities at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.