{"id":12200,"date":"2019-03-09T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12200"},"modified":"2019-03-09T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T21:35:55","slug":"astro-aerospace-accepted-into-nasa-urban-air-mobility-grand-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/astro-aerospace-accepted-into-nasa-urban-air-mobility-grand-challenge\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Astro Aerospace Accepted Into NASA Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Astro Aerospace has been accepted to participate in NASA\u2019s\nUAM Grand Challenge beginning in 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/uamgc\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/uamgc<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vision to revolutionize mobility within metropolitan\nareas is one of the most exciting frontiers in modern aviation. Astro\u2019s\nengineers and team are proud to be selected to participate in the UAM Grand\nChallenge alongside \u201cthe best of the best&#8221; of the UAM community. NASA\nremains committed to supporting accessible air transport systems for passengers\nand cargo by working with the urban air mobility (UAM) community to identify\nand address the key challenges ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, NASA will host a UAM ecosystem-wide challenge for\nparticipants to execute system level safety and integration scenarios within a\nrobust and relevant environment. The goal of this first in a series of UAM\nGrand Challenges, which NASA is calling GC-1, is to promote public confidence\nin UAM safety and facilitate community-wide learning while capturing the\npublic\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to be accepted into the Grand Challenge and\nsee this as a terrific opportunity to demonstrate Astro\u2019s innovative technology\nto the World and collaborate with other developers. What greater platform is\nthere than to work closely with NASA towards a new landscape of urban air\nmobility? \u201d states Phil Croft (Astro structural engineer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce Bent states \u201c Our team is very confident our Elroy2\nwill be well positioned amongst other great companies involved in this Nasa\nchallenge. We are very pleased to be accepted and recognized as a player in\nthis VTOL industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elroy is Astro\u2019s 2 passenger, eVTOL (Electric Take Off and\nLanding) short haul aerial vehicle that has the ability to travel up to 70km\/hr\nfor 25 minutes completely emission free, is ideal for urban commutes, and turns\nlong commutes into minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s industry leading Touch Screen Control system, flight\ncontrol algorithm and avionics software are just a few of the key components\nthat attribute to Elroy\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astro Aerospace has been accepted to participate in NASA\u2019s UAM Grand Challenge beginning in 2020 https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/uamgc. The vision to revolutionize mobility within metropolitan areas is one of the most exciting frontiers in modern aviation. Astro\u2019s engineers and team are proud to be selected to participate in the UAM Grand Challenge alongside \u201cthe best of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12201,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions\/12201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}