Abstract
- † ‡ NASA’s Future ATM Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET) provides an extensive set of modeling, simulation and analysis capabilities for studying air transportations in the National Airspace System. The Configurable Airspace Research and Analysis Tool (CARAT) has been developed to build on the FACET capabilities to develop an environment useful for studying the interaction between space vehicle operations in the airspace and the air traffic. CARAT introduces a flexible vehicle-model database that allows the user to easily add and configure space transportation vehicle models or air transportation vehicle models for integration with the FACET simulation. CARAT also provides capabilities for safety analyses, including trajectory analysis, debris modeling, and specific functions dealing with flight hazard areas in the airspace and on the surface: the Aircraft Hazard Area and Individual-Casualty Contour Analysis, respectively. The CARAT system was originally developed on the Windows platform, but has recently been updated to work with newer versions of FACET on the latter’s preferred platforms: Linux and other Unix variants, including the Apple Mac OS X. The update also provides a cleaner integration with FACET and additional enhancements in the area of vehicle modeling, including a redesigned software architecture for implementing aerospace models. Models of several aerospace vehicle that have recently garnered increasing interest have been added to the CARAT model database, including models for studying Ares launch vehicle concepts motivated by NASA’s Constellation Program, and several models of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Published on 01/01/2008
Volume 2008, 2008
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-6344
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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