Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles

NexSTAR UAS

Flight Testing Overview

From here you can find a journal of flights for the fleet. In the date folders, plots and descriptions of objectives for the day are provided.

See the RECUV channel on You Tube for fun and informative videos of our flights.

Flight Objective Log
17 Sep 2008 NexSTAR-1 PTH Sensor Testing using NCAR MIST sondes in each wing tip
02 Oct 2008 RSSI measurements of MNR-1 with NexSTAR-1 and using large battery pack
14 Oct 2008 Cooperative tracking of moving ground vehicle, and more RSSI measurements using different flight patterns
17 Oct 2008 RSSI Chaining of two static nodes, vertical stacking of two NexSTARs with two independent flight systems and crews
28 Oct 2008 RSSI Chaining of two static nodes
01 Mar 2009 Sonde flight at Pawnee National Grasslands for the CoCoNUE experiments
13 Mar 2009 Cory's RSSI chaining experiments at Table Mountain
21 Aug 2009 Tempest payload testing at Table Mountain



NexSTAR Fleet Statistics as of Sept 13 2010
UA # of
Flights
Total Flight
Time (hrs)
NexSTAR-0 22 1.7
NexSTAR-1 36 6.7
NexSTAR-2 32 10.8
NexSTAR-3 23 5.5
NexSTAR-4D 0 0.0
Totals 113 24.7

Checklist and Flight logs


Checklist and Flight Log