NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations

NASA is flight testing a radio that could be used for communications with remotely piloted vehicles.

NASA's S-3 Viking research aircraft at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

The prototype radio, built under a cooperative agreement between NASA and Rockwell Collins, sits in its test rack in the rear section of the S-3 Viking.

A NASA engineer standing on the trailer assists with raising the communications tower that transmits to the NASA research aircraft.

NASA researcher Jim Griner coordinates the testing from his seat behind the cockpit of the S-3 Viking.

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