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NASA selects teams for Small Aircraft Transportation System research and technology development program
NASA has selected four teams to participate in the new Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) research and development program. SATS is a five-year, $69 million proof of concept program managed by the NASA General Aviation Programs Office, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. The program projectwill be implemented in phases, beginning in the fall of 2001 and continuing to the flight demonstration phase in 2005.
Through shared public and private investments in the Advanced General Aviation Transportation Experiments (AGATE) project, and in part due to the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, improvements are being made to small aircraft that make them easier to fly, safer to fly, and more affordable to purchase and operate. SATS will continue the public/private investment model and build on these improvements. New general aviation aircraft will use advanced technology control and display systems, advanced data communications systems, advanced navigation and weather systems, and new landing systems that allow operation in near all-weather conditions at non-radar, non-towered landing facilities. All of these improvements, when combined, will make on-demand, distributed personal air travel a practical reality.
The four teams that will participate in the initial research and development phase, are as follows in alphabetical order, are the by team name Maryland SATS Lab, North Carolina-Upper Great Plains SATS Lab, Southeast SATS Lab Consortium, and Virginia SATS Lab.
Each of these four teams is a partnership of industry, state government, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions. These partnerships, or consortia, will share resources and costs with the federal government in an effort to move the SATS concept from the research phase to an implementation phase.
Southeast SATS Lab Consortium (SESLC), led by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, was officially incorporated in the State of Florida in September 2000. It represents the direct membership of the SESCL, including more than 40 aviation and technology companies, airframe manufacturers, aviation infrastructure providers, universities, airport managers and aviation authorities, pilots, and professional associations across the nation. Through members like the Florida Space Grant Consortium, The National Safe Skies Alliance, and the Florida Aviation Trades Association, the SESLC reaches more than 200 aviation-related organizations that are interested in changing the future of personal transportation. More than two dozen airports in the Southeastern United States are either SESLC members, or becoming members, and each has expressed interest in hosting SATS experiments and demonstrations. States represented in the membership include Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Oregon, Arkansas, and Virginia. Other government organizations participating in the project include the FAA Southern Region, Florida Department of Transportation, FAA Orlando Airports District Office, and Enterprise Florida.
Over the next year, the Southeast SATS Lab Team is expected to receive $2.5 million from NASA. Another $2.5 million is expected from member industry and airport organizations. The funding will enable experiments and demonstrations in a network of airports throughout the southeastern states. With NASA, industry, state, and other anticipated funding sources, the SESLC expects the entire five-year SESLC effortproject to exceed $82 million.

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