AFUAS (Advanced Flexible Use of Airspace Service) Concept

Flexible Use of Airspace (FUA) Conzept Air space = continuum Civil / Military à integration instead of segregation Flexible air space structures and proceduresà time slotted allocation und usag

Human-in-the-Loop Landing Flare Flight Test Simulation of the SpaceLiner Orbiter

Against the background that all future air traffic participants are requested to act as System Wide Information Management (SWIM) communicating sub-systems by the future Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) SWIM \u27Intranet for ATM\u27 concept, facing the challenge of integration of space traffic in the current Air Traffic Management (ATM) needs SWIM compliance of future commercial space transportation (CST) vehicles having “landing like an aircraft at an airport” characteristics. In order to evaluate future spacecraft cockpit procedures in a transition context from Aircraft Access to SWIM (AAtS) to Spacecraft Access to SWIM in a network wide airspace management environment following the Advanced Flexible Use of Airspace (AFUAS) concept, a realistic flight dynamics model for the SpaceLiner orbiter has been developed. The realized solution is based on the X-Plane flight simulation tool. Landing flare flight test results of a simulated SpaceLiner approach to a northern German airport are presented and discussed

Vs controller design for simulation of the SpaceLiner suborbital two-staged reusable launch vehicle using SIFCDL (Simulation Integrated Flight Controller Development Lab)

To allow the testing and evaluation of procedures and functionalities for an improved handling of space vehicle operation on ATM stakeholder level, a Space & Air Traffic Management (SATM) testbed has been established at DLR. It has to cover Aeronautical Information Management integration concepts, Air Traffic Control procedure adaptations and Air Traffic Controller Support as well as required System Wide Information Management (SWIM) based data exchange aspects. One key element of the SATM testbed is a Space Flight Simulator, which has been provided with a realistic flight dynamics model for the SpaceLiner orbiter, a two-staged suborbital RLV which aims at future high-speed intercontinental passenger transport. To provide realistic flight behavior, the simulation model, based on X-Plane, shall be equipped with vertical speed autopilot controller. Core of each flight controller development is the precise derivation of the functional flight controller requirements from the aircraft dynamics. Using tabled flight dynamics data of unknown granularity contains the risk of fine grained controller tuning based on a too coarse grained fundament. The presented solution is based on the geometry modeled SpaceLiner flight dynamics in X-Plane, using SIFCDL for first findings of a vertical speed autopilot controller

Air Traffic Impact Analysis Design for a Suborbital Point-to-Point Passenger Transport Concept

Space flight activities are growing on an international level, thereby creating an evident need for a safe and efficient integration of space vehicle operations into the air traffic system. For concepts like very high-speed intercontinental passenger transport via suborbital point-2-point flights, as it is proposed by the DLR SpaceLiner, this integration issue is becoming especially relevant. As part of a case study approach to analyse the effects of space vehicle operations on air traffic and to evaluate mitigation strategies and optimized ATM integration, a traffic impact analysis has been prepared and conducted for the SpaceLiner return trajectory towards a European landing site. First results of the analysis will be presented together with the methodology and modeling approach which has been applied

Manned and Unmanned Space Vehicles: Air Traffic Insertion & SESAR Requirements

Space Traffic Management, SESA

Manned and Unmanned Space Vehicles: Air Traffic Insertion & SESAR Requirements

Space Traffic Management, SESA

Space Based ADS-B for Commercial Space Flight Operations

The steadily increasing air traffic and commercial space traffic in particular on transcontinental routes or suborbital operations requires extending controlled airspace to those regions not yet covered by ground based surveillance. An ADS-B system with a strong focus on space-based ADS-B can provide global and continuous air and space surveillance to enhance the operation of spacecraft and spaceplanes in transit through the US National Airspace System (NAS) and Single European Sky (SESAR) and above. Such a system can overcome the prevailing surveillance constraints in non-radar airspace (NRA)

Flugeinsatzwegpunktplangenerierung durch automatische Umwandlung von „High Level Intensionen“ in Flugzeugmissionswegpunktpläne

Der Einsatz von Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) für den maritimen Einsatz bedarf unterschiedlicher Komponenten für die Fernführung des einzelnen Fluggerätes als auch von Schwärmen. Die Kernkomponnente ist die Bodenstation luftgestützte Dienste zur Missionsplanung und als zentraler Bestandteil zur Kommunikation mit den weiteren angeschlossenen Diensten (Satelliten-Dienste, Piloten-HMI, Sensordatenstation und Realtime Maritime Situation Awareness System). Eine Missionsoptimierung geschieht hierbei durch „Missionszerlegung“ in: • Generische Aufgabentypisierung • Scheduling unter exemplarischer Berücksichtigung zweier Flugzeuge mit unterschiedlicher Performance und Sensorik. Um sowohl projektspezifische Missions/Flugzeug/Sensorik Kombinationen als auch eine Vielzahl unbekannter, zukünftiger Kombinationen zu adressieren, wird eine Auftragsinterpretation unter Verwendung folgender kanonischer Aufgaben generiert: • Abdeckung • Sampling • Durchflug Als Ergebnis kann so dem Gesamtauftrag an ein Verbundsystem durch Dekomposition in einzelne, sich ergänzende luftgestützte Verbundteilnehmeraufgaben begegnet werden. Erste Reallzeitsimulationen zeigen eine von den Operateuren akzeptierte Gesamtfunktionalität. Eine Kombination aus Delegieren und Intervenieren versetzt im Gesamtverbundsystem einen Maßnahmenkoordinationsoperateur in die Lage, sich auf übergeordnete Aspekte des Gesamtlagebilds im Sinne der Vorgabe einer Maßnahmenagenda zu konzentrieren

News from SWIM in Space

Regarding current as well as future commercial space transportation (CST) projects, new re-entry trajectory profiles, differing from capsule and shuttle-like approaches, have to be taken into account. These characteristics are mainly ruled by the principle of “landing like an aircraft at an airport”. This directly generates the need to be taken in a system wide information management (SWIM) consideration because of the fact, that all the future air traffic participants are requested to act as SWIM communicating sub-systems by the future Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) SWIM "Intranet for ATM" concept. Against the background of the global character of future CST operations and the associated SWIM harmonization need referring the U.S. Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and SESAR, a first solution based on the already harmonized data format standards AIXM and FIXM had been realized. The new version’s improved performance by the usage of a C code runtime embedding module, a data standard proposal for vehicle specific hazard area information as well as the way for flexible extensions and enhancements in the future by a fundament for mixed language programming additions are presented