ATM-X xTM ETM Team meets with Raven Aerostar
August 2, 2022
On July 14, 2022, the Air Traffic Management Exploration (ATM-X) Project’s Extensible Traffic Management (xTM) Sub-Project’s Upper Class E Traffic Management (ETM) team’s leads met with representatives from the Raven Aerostar company for preliminary discussions to establish a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (SAA). Raven Aerostar is a high-altitude balloon company with years of operational experience and demonstrated capabilities in the areas of communications, science, wildfire monitoring, and defense. Establishing an agreement with Raven Aerostar will be a benefit to the xTM Sub-Project by providing key data-driven insights into the challenges and considerations of operations in the stratosphere, particularly for a unique platform with unique flight characteristics. Follow-on discussions are planned to continue the agreement development.