Commercial
Delair, a supplier of drone solutions for commercial industries, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “technology pioneers”. Delair’s drone solutions, combining fixed-wing UAVs made for long-range operations with sophisticated analytics based on artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning algorithms,
Business
Insitu Inc.was awarded $8,215,759 for firm-fixed-price order N0001918F0487 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-17-G-0001) for the procurement of six ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, related support equipment, training, site activation, technical services, and data for the government of Lebanon. Work will
South Korean telco KT has unveiled its 5G emergency network service called Skyship that uses airship drones to search for survivors in the aftermath of disasters. KT collaborated with local drone maker Metismake to design the helium gas-based airship, which has an attached pod with propellant, network module, high-
Commercial
Facebook has announced on its blog that it was no longer pursuing the completion of its solar-powered drone, Aquila, a high altitude platform station (HAPS) system. This has involved a lot of trial and error. When we started the Aquila program back in 2014, very few companies were involved
Sources told the South China Morning Post that more than 30 military and government agencies have deployed birdlike drones and related devices in at least five provinces in recent years. One part of the country that has seen the new technology used extensively is the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced that it has successfully flown its MQ-25A surrogate aircraft – a Predator C Avenger – outfitted with a representative set of mission payloads, including Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR), Electronic Support Measures (ESM), Automatic Identification System (AIS), and Mission Processing. MQ-25 is
At the ACI General Assembly held on June 19th in Brussels, Eamonn Brennan, Director General of EUROCONTROL, addressed the capacity challenges faced by European aviation in 2018 and in the future. His keynote address underlined that the first five months of 2018 have seen much higher delays than in recent
C-UAS
MyDefence has launched PITBULL – the next generation wearable Counter UAS solution that utilizes smart jamming to defeat enemy drones. PITBULL was developed to have minimal impact on other signals while jamming, in an effort to maintain own communication. The Counter UAS jammer is a tactical solution weighing just 775 grams,
Video
During the golden age of flight test, the name of the game was higher, faster and louder. No manned x-plane ever exceeded the X-15 in any of these categories. X-15 66670 (Ship 1) flew 81 times, all originating from the undisputed home of experimental flight test – Edwards
Events
NASA will host a teleconference for members of the media and aviation industry at 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 28, to discuss the details and preliminary results of the agency's first large-scale, remotely piloted aircraft flight in the national airspace using detect and avoid technology
Business
The security of Australia’s maritime borders will be significantly strengthened with another major military investment. The Turnbull Government will invest $1.4 billion and acquire the first of six MQ-4C Triton remotely piloted aircraft through a cooperative program with the United States Navy. The Triton will complement the
Business
Boeing has announced its investment in Matternet, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup pioneering safe, on-demand unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery operations in urban environments. Matternet's advanced logistics platform – combined with Boeing's expertise in complex logistics, integration and manufacturing capabilities – will further enable reliable, efficient