Electric aircraft propulsion (EAP) has become a major thrust in NASA’s aeronautics programs. The EAP is a NASA technology used to fulfill NASA’s role in its Sustainable Flight National Partnership, which has a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Three of NASA’s four aeronautics programs have one or more projects that support EAP technology development and target technologies for wide body (> 10 megawatts) aircraft to urban air mobility (100s of kilowatts). The effort includes megawatt-scale flight demonstration, systems studies, electric machine and drive development, thermal management, and materials development. The Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland is intensely involved in much of this research. Specifically, GRC has material development groups working to develop materials that will help enable EAP. This presentation will focus on selected NASA megawatt-scale EAP technology efforts that span several NASA projects and programs and will highlight material development in this area.


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    Title :

    NASA's Megawatt Electric Aircraft Propulsion Research and Development


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    Conference:

    West Virginia University Department of Mechanical and Arerospace Engineering Seminar ; 2022 ; Morgantown, WV, US


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    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English