“Aurora and SkyGrid Collaborate to Accelerate AAM”

Auro­ra Flight Sci­ences, a Boe­ing com­pa­ny, is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Sky­Grid to pave the way for the future of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) by devel­op­ing cut­ting-edge solu­tions for the inte­gra­tion and man­age­ment of autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles into the nation­al air­space, reports a press release. 

The release explains, “Both com­pa­nies bring com­ple­men­tary exper­tise to the table, with Auro­ra pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal exper­tise in autonomous air­craft oper­a­tions and Sky­Grid offer­ing its solu­tions for AAM oper­a­tors fly­ing both crewed and uncrewed mis­sions.”

Lar­ry Wirs­ing, VP of Auro­ra air­craft and prod­uct devel­op­ment, com­ment­ed, “We are proud to be work­ing with Sky­Grid to bring the high­est qual­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty to every stage of the AAM jour­ney, lever­ag­ing cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies to ensure sus­tain­able and acces­si­ble solu­tions for urban flight.”

The release con­tin­ues, “Sky­Grid, a Boe­ing joint ven­ture based in Austin, Texas, spe­cialis­es in pro­vid­ing a ground-based sys­tem to meet the emerg­ing needs of AAM. As an avi­a­tion Third-Par­ty Ser­vice Provider (TSP), Sky­Grid is devel­op­ing a plat­form that pro­vides AAM operators—flying both crewed and uncrewed missions—with a detailed dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of their oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment. This sys­tem deliv­ers pre-flight and in-flight sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, as well as deci­sion sup­port ser­vices, to help oper­a­tors safe­ly and effi­cient­ly nav­i­gate today’s air­space.”

Jia Xu, CEO of Sky­Grid, remarked, “Auro­ra and Sky­Grid share a vision for a future where autonomous air mobil­i­ty is seam­less­ly inte­grat­ed into every­day life. By com­bin­ing Aurora’s deep exper­tise in autonomous air­craft devel­op­ment with SkyGrid’s advanced dig­i­tal plat­form for sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness and deci­sion sup­port for avi­a­tion auton­o­my, we are cre­at­ing the foun­da­tion for a safe, effi­cient and scal­able air­space sys­tem that empow­ers oper­a­tors to realise the full poten­tial of advanced air mobil­i­ty.”

(Cred­it: Sky­grid)

Auro­ra engi­neers, work­ing across sites in Mass­a­chu­setts, Vir­ginia, and Switzer­land, are lead­ing the tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment of the sys­tem “that will ensure seam­less inte­gra­tion of autonomous vehi­cles into the air­space.” This sys­tem “will sup­port autonomous eVTOLs in main­tain­ing sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, detect­ing and avoid­ing poten­tial obsta­cles and pro­vid­ing crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion relat­ed to weath­er, air traf­fic, and oth­er chal­leng­ing con­tin­gen­cies.”  

Wirs­ing con­tin­ued, “Aurora’s work with Sky­Grid isn’t only about devel­op­ing inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies. It’s also about cre­at­ing reg­u­la­to­ry and oper­a­tional foun­da­tions that will allow autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cles to become a nat­ur­al exten­sion of air trav­el and trans­porta­tion.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.aurora.aero

https://www.skygrid.com/

(Top image: Aurora/Skygrid)

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