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Following two years of secretive development, a young Chinese startup focusing in drones unveiled its Hover Camera. Different from many other drones, the Hover Camera can track and film people and objects on sight with its 4K videos and photos via a 13-megapixel camera. The Hover Camera is the
Solar efficiency is measured and certified by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). According to NREL's testing, Alta Device's new dual-junction solar cell is the world's most efficient 1-sun cell at 31.6% efficiency. This is the seventh
Electronic Sub-Systems
Eric Mueller works at the NASA Ames Research Center and is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. He co-authored a paper with his professor, Mykel Kochenderfer at Stanford, titled "Multi-rotor Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes." The paper describes how speed changes
Testing
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced the successful demonstration of the Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) enabled with Hybrid Quadrotor technology – allowing the system to take-off and land vertically to significantly increase mission flexibility. With assistance from Latitude Engineering and Cloud Cap Technology, the Textron Systems’ proof-of-
Commercial
While scientists have gotten a lot better at estimating the strength of a hurricane before it hits land, they still don’t fully understand how hurricanes form. While satellite measurements can give meteorologists a pretty good picture of the atmospheric temperature and precipitation within a hurricane, sometimes the resolution is
Launchers
Robonic Ltd Oy of Finland (a subsidiary of Sagem – Safran) has delivered its fourth generation OHTO pneumatic launcher to Lockheed Martin, broadening Robonic’s portfolio of highly efficient pneumatic zero-point launchers for tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as well as aerial targets. This launcher is smaller, more efficient and
The partnership between Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Korean defense industry achieved another milestone in April with the completion of the first two component orders on the Republic of Korea Global Hawk Program. This spring, Korean Jig and Fixture (KJF) delivered build-to-print aerospace grade precision machine parts for
Payloads
Sentera, LLC, a provider of sensors, data management software and integrated drone platforms, has introduced its Double 4K sensor, bringing a small, fully-customizable twin-imager sensor to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry. The rugged, high-throughput Double 4K sensor is designed for use in harsh environments, with configuration
Regulations
On 25 April 2016, the Royal Decree of 10 April 2016 “concerning the use of remote controlled aircrafts in the Belgian airspace” entered into force. This new legislation regulates both the private and professional use of “unmanned aircraft systems”. It contains a number of air traffic rules to be complied
Regulations
Commercially operated autonomous drones may be on the horizon, especially since Google and Amazon have announced plans to start drone-based parcel delivery in 2017. A policy problem is likely to follow: allocation of scarce airspace and preferred flight paths — an issue complicated by the need to ensure that each
Research
Drones may soon have the capability to save thousands of lives each year by detecting terrorists’ improvised explosive devices and active land mines from long-ago wars thanks to innovative technology developed at UW-Madison. The proven detection technology that also can detect chemical and nuclear weapons and drugs was