| Summary: | The static Suborbital Space Flight Simulator (SSFS) in the Applied Aviation Sciences (AAS) department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is working together with the Next Generation ERAU Advanced Research (NEAR) laboratory on Daytona Beach campus. The NEAR lab will support the SSFS by using an Energy Management Display Indicator (EMDI) display for rendering live ADS-B data. The data simulated at the SSFS lab will be later shared and transferred to the Next Generation Test Bed (NGTB) at Daytona International airport to be integrated into the National Air System for research and educational purposes. Furthermore, the live ADS-B data will be also used in remote locations using a Ground Based Transceiver (GBT). The SSFS will incorporate real weather scenarios that are currently being processed at the AAS department to mimic real suborbital trajectories or point-to-point (PTP) trajectories between different spaceports. Some of the spaceports to be considered for the NAS include the Midland spaceport in Texas, Spaceport America in New Mexico, Kona spaceport in Hawaii, Kodiak spaceport in Alaska and Cecile spaceport in Florida. Also, PTP trajectories will be generated between the NAS and other international spaceports within the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) program among others. Different PTP suborbital flights will allow novel data collection in the mesosphere region providing unprecedented science that will be able to use to refine current mesospheric models and further analyzed the mesosphere. Other benefits of these simulated suborbital trajectories in the SSFS will be to incorporate these trajectories (ascent and descent segments) into the NAS to further familiarize Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) with rerouted aircraft, enhance airport situational awareness, and analyze the Navigation Accuracy Category (NAC), Navigation Integrity Category (NIC) which relates the containment radius, Rc, and Source Integrity Level (SIL) which represents the percentage of exceeding the ...
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