NASA engineers put the X-57 Maxwell, NASAs first all-electric X-plane, through its initial telemetry tests at NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, testing the aircrafts ability to transmit data to teams on the ground. The data is packaged and transmitted down to ground assets, where its decoded into a format that can be presented to a flight control team to look at screens in real time for flight operations. X-57s goal is to help set certification standards for emerging electric aircraft markets.