• 25 Feb 2021 05:30 PM
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SESAR Joint Undertaking Supports UAM

The Single European Sky (SES) Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR-JU) announced on Jan. 21 that it had formed a consortium 17 companies and other organizations to design and test concepts of operations for various AAM (aka urban air mobility, UAM) applications within the framework of U-space — the European Commission’s Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) System that seeks safe and secure integration of drones and other autonomous aircraft into Europe’s airspace. The Air Mobility Urban – Large Experimental Demonstrations (AMU-LED) is a newly started SESAR U-space project that aims to demonstrate a range of these mobility services through at least 100 flight hours of flight testing over the next two years in several cities across Europe.

In addition, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK will host a series of large-scale AAM live demonstrations, as part of CORUS-XUAM — the Concept of Operations for European UTM Systems (CORUS) Extension for UAM — a newly launched project of SESAR-JU and the European Union’s Horizon Europe 2020 program, which consists of 19 partners and 11 related third parties across the seven countries.