SATS - a partnership of NCAM, NASA & the FAA

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Danville Demonstration Pavilion

Chairof NCAM Board presenting to Danville Mayor

Our vision is to create, a high mobility 21st Century personal transportation system utilizing small airplanes and small airports, in partnership with NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) program, 

NCAM's ( a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) organization), mission was to coordinate, integrate and demonstrate the technical work and products of its members and its NASA and FAA partners, foster technology transfer and standards needed for commercialization.

NCAM is national in scope with industry, aviation authorities and academic research organizations.  An NCAM Information brochure in a Card Format can be downloaded - Brochure (PDF Format)

The NASA Industry and FAA SATS Program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in partnership with the Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and state & local aviation and airport authorities, leads a new research & development program for developing and demonstrating technologies needed for a Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS). The project's initial mission is to prove that four new operating capabilities will enable safe and affordable access to virtually any runway in the nation in most weather conditions. These new operating capabilities rely on on-board computing, advanced flight controls, Highway in the Sky displays, and automated air traffic separation and sequencing technologies.  For detailed information about NASA's SATS program please go to  sats.nasa.gov, you can also download a in PDF format (size 5 MB) tri-fold of the SATS program.

NASA and NCAM envision that SATS will give more time to more people, by satisfying the emerging public demand for safe, higher-speed mobility and increased accessibility to suburban, rural and remote communities. 

The SATS benefits include improved standards of living and quality of life for the nation in the new global economy. SATS technology innovations will provide the nation with:

1. Economic development for communities of all sizes enabled by localized air accessibility

2. Choices to bypass highway and hub-and-spoke transportation systems delays

3. An efficient means for intermodal connectivity between small airports and the global aviation system

4. An exportable transportation revolution with affordable "instant infrastructure" for developing nations around the world

You can download our operations concept and flight test videos in small size low resolution as well large size high resolution movies from Movies

SATS Expo remarks FAA Administrator, AOPA Phil Boyer, NASA Admin., etc.
Note this is a movie (wmv format 37 Meg)

SATS Expo Briefing by Congressman Virgil Goode (34 Meg PowerPoint)

NCAM @ FAA Forecast Conference 2005 (10 Meg PowerPoint)

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Members

NCAM's partners include the SATS Laboratory partnerships listed below and the Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments ( AGATE ) Alliance. NCAM's  technical work is performed by these SATS Lab members who are:

New SATS Member Partnerships

Other organizations around are forming SATS partnerships, for example, the state of Indiana has taken such an initiative. Their goal is to form a funded SATS effort through their partnership.

NCAM Contact Information

          Telephone                                     
          757 659 0500                                  

Mailing address
           3130 N Armistead Ave., Hampton, VA 23666

Electronic mail

Public Information: ssiddiqi@ncam-sats.org

 

Detailed NCAM organization information

02/16/2008

Last modified: June 28, 2007