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Format: 1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-309-18492-4 , 1-280-21053-2 , 9786610210534 , 0-309-59240-2 , 0-585-03079-0

Series Statement: Compass series

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics -- Copyright -- Preface -- IMAGINE THE DAY -- BREAKTHROUGHS ARE REQUIRED -- INTEGRATION VERSUS BREAKTHROUGHS -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- CANDIDATE BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES -- Air Vehicle Technology -- Advanced Air Vehicle Configurations -- Embedded Sensing and Control -- Structures and Materials -- Advanced Propulsion and Power -- Manufacturing -- Computer-Based Design, Modeling, and Simulation -- Air Transportation Systems Technology -- Models to Predict the Impact of New Technologies and Procedures on the Air Transportation System -- Upwardly Compatible Aerospace Information Systems -- Methodologies for the Development of High Integrity Software -- Advanced Human-Automation Systems -- Precision Air Traffic Management/Aircraft Operations -- Mitigating Constraints in Terminal Areas -- Space Transportation Technology -- Advanced Air Breathing Engines -- Pulse Detonation Wave Engine -- High Thrust to Weight Rocket Engines -- Variable Expansion Ratio Nozzles -- Advanced Propellants and Storage Methods -- Integrated Aero-Thermal Structures -- Novel Launch System Concepts -- Additional Goals for Space Transportation -- BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES TO MEET NASA'S GOALS -- Cyber Technology -- Structures and Materials -- Propulsion Technology -- Aerospace Vehicle Configurations and Integration Concepts -- Precision Terminal Area Aircraft Operations -- ACHIEVING THE 10 AND 20 YEAR GOALS -- Meeting the 10 Year Milestones -- Meeting the 20 Year Milestones -- 1 Introduction -- EVOLUTION OF THE 10 AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY GOALS -- The National Science and Technology Council's Aeronautics Goals -- NASA's Strategic Planning in Response to the NSTC Goals -- Scenario-Based Strategic Planning Workshop -- Parallel NASA Activities Leading to the 10 Goals -- THIS STUDY. , Statement of Task -- Study Approach -- Workshop on Breakthrough Aerospace Technologies -- REFERENCES -- 2 Achieving NASA's Goals with Breakthrough Technologies -- FUTURE AEROSPACE NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES AND NASA'S ENABLING TECHNOLOGY GOALS -- Enhanced Air Vehicle Safety and Survivability -- Environmental Compatibility -- General Aviation -- High-Speed Air Travel -- Air Traffic Management and Related Air Transportation System Technology -- Enhanced Computer-Based Design and Manufacturing -- Space Transportation Technology -- DEFINING "BREAKTHROUGH" TECHNOLOGY -- ACHIEVING THE 10 AND 20 YEAR GOALS -- Meeting the 10 Year Milestones -- Reducing the Risk of Technology Adoption -- Accelerating the Adoption of Commercially Viable Technology -- Meeting the 20 Year Milestones -- REFERENCES -- 3 Air Vehicle Technology -- TOWARDS NEW AIR VEHICLES -- TECHNOLOGY THRUST AREAS -- Advanced Air Vehicle Configurations -- Advanced Configurations -- Drag Reduction Technologies -- Aerodynamic/Propulsive Integration -- Embedded Sensors and Controls -- Aircraft with Controlled ''Adaptive" Structures -- Intelligent Gas Turbine Engines: Moving from Proof of Concept to Deployment -- Structures and Materials -- Advanced Composites -- Advanced Metal Alloys -- Advanced Propulsion and Power -- Alternative Fuels -- Novel Engine Components -- Novel Power/Propulsion Devices -- Advanced Manufacturing -- Automated Manufacturing Processes -- Lean Manufacturing -- Computer-Based Design, Modeling, and Simulation -- Optimizing the Design Process -- Creating Nonlinear, Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design Models -- Improving Models for Propulsion System Design -- Optimizing Human/Computer Integration During the Design Process -- REFERENCES -- 4 Air Transportation System Technology -- PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. , MODELS TO PREDICT THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCEDURES -- Documentation of the Current System -- Evaluation of Current Assumptions -- Tolerable Risk Levels for Component Technologies -- Development of Fundamental and Integrated Models -- UPWARDLY COMPATIBLE AEROSPACE INFORMATION SYSTEMS -- Current Upgrade Limitations and Difficulties -- Designing for Evolutionary Upgrades in Information Technology -- Modular Design -- Software Architectures -- METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH INTEGRITY SOFTWARE -- Developing, Ensuring, and Maintaining High Integrity Software -- Software Certification -- ADVANCED HUMAN-AUTOMATION SYSTEMS -- Improving Human-Computer Interaction/Integration -- Improving Pilot Situation Awareness -- Unpiloted Commercial Transports, an Extreme Solution to Pilot Task Allocation -- PRECISION AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT/AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS -- Air-to-Ground Datalinks for Precise Controller-to-Pilot Communications -- Improved Weather Detection Sensors -- Precision Navigation and Surveillance -- Fully Autonomous Air Traffic Operations -- MITIGATING CONSTRAINTS IN TERMINAL AREAS -- Reduced Runway Occupancy Time -- Reduction in Aircraft Velocity on Roll out -- Wide Runways/Formation Landings -- Mitigation of Wake Vortices -- Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft to Enhance Capacity -- Personal Air Travel -- REFERENCES -- 5 Space Transportation Technology -- INTRODUCTION -- POTENTIAL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES -- Advanced Air-Breathing Engines -- Pulse Detonation Wave Engine -- High Thrust-to-Weight Rocket Engines -- Variable Expansion-Ratio Nozzles -- Advanced Propellants and Storage Methods -- Recombination of Highly Energetic Atomic Ingredients -- Hydrogen Storage at High Effective Densities -- Metallic Hydrogen -- Integrated Aerothermal Structures -- Novel Launch System Concepts -- Novel Launch Vehicle Configurations. , Automated Launch Operations -- REFERENCES -- 6 Breakthrough Technologies to Meet NASA's Goals -- IDENTIFYING BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY CATEGORIES -- CYBER TECHNOLOGY -- Modeling and Simulation -- Advanced, Robust, Real-Time Sensors and Actuators -- Automated Manufacturing -- Improved Methods for Developing Flight-Critical Software -- Human-Computer Integration -- STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS -- Lightweight Structures for Reusable Launch Vehicles -- High-Temperature Materials -- PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY -- Advanced Air Vehicle Propulsion Concepts -- Novel Components and Active Control for Gas Turbine Engines -- Alternative Propulsion Systems -- Advanced Propellants for Launch Vehicles -- AEROSPACE VEHICLE CONFIGURATIONS -- Advanced Configurations -- PRECISION AIR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS IN TERMINAL AREAS -- Reduced Runway Occupancy Time -- Mitigating Wake Vortices -- Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing Aircraft to Enhance Capacity -- REFERENCE -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A Statement of Task -- APPENDIX B Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- APPENDIX C Sources of Input to the Committee -- PRESENTATIONS -- Committee Meeting 1 (September 15-16, 1997), Washington, D.C. -- Space Transportation Technology Working Group Meeting (October 8,1997), Washington, D.C. -- NASA Langley Research Center Meeting (November 3-4, 1997), Hampton, Virginia -- Committee Meeting 2 (November 18-19, 1997), Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, ... -- SRI/NASA Ames Research Center Meeting (January 19-21, 1998), SanJose, California -- Ohio Aerospace Institute Meeting (February 9-11, 1998), Cleveland, Ohio -- DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS -- APPENDIX D Complete List of Technologies Assessed -- AIR VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY -- Propulsion Technologies -- Aerodynamics -- Air Vehicle Configurations -- Control Systems and Sensors. , Structures, Materials, and MEMS -- Design and Manufacturing -- AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY -- Flight Deck and Human/Automation Systems -- Communications, Navigation, Surveillance, and Air Traffic Management -- Terminal Area Technologies -- Software and Process Technologies -- SPACE TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY -- Propulsion Technologies -- Launch Vehicle Configurations and Components -- Launch Assist Technology -- Ground Infrastructure -- Mitigation of Environmental Impact -- APPENDIX E Workshop on Breakthrough Aerospace Technologies. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-309-06226-8

Language: English