Testing
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Multi Sensor Detect Sense and Avoid (MSDSA) programme successfully completed its first airborne demonstration using a prototype, x-band radar sensor. This new Sense And Avoid (SAA) sensor repeatedly detected and tracked airborne intruders resulting in over 60 seconds of avoidance time. “The MSDSA sensor incorporates
Events
On 16 November 2011, the European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop took place in the Europa meeting room at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. This workshop addressed the following topics and their pertinence to UAS: societal impact, privacy, data protection, liability and ethical concerns. The “chef de file” and
Business
AeroVironment’s Hummingbird - a surveillance prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - made the front cover of The Invention issue of TIME, which appears on November 28 and which features 50 new inventions. New York photographer Jamie Chung spent two and a half weeks shooting the Hummingbird—among a
Payloads
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced its successful participation in a U.S. Air Force exercise designed to demonstrate the capability of an aerostat equipped with maritime radar and an Electro-optical/Infrared (EO/IR) sensor to provide situational awareness for littoral environments. “Successful integration and operation of the Lynx
Commercial
The video above showing a civilian operated unmanned helicopter filming riots in Warsaw, Poland recently is a great example of the democratisation of what was until very recently, military-grade technology. This is a simply an ISR unmanned aircraft flying above the streets of a major city taking camera footage
Research
Queensland University of Technology has just published this thesis by Shane Degen B. Eng. (Hons) QUT at the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, Faculty of Built Environment & Engineering, as part of his Masters Degree.The research was supported and funded by the Australian Research Council, Australian Postgraduate Award,
Commercial
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is considering the use of mini UAS to combat crime and the dissident republican threat. The aircraft under consideration is the Scout from Aeryon Labs. It is fitted with a camera that automatically tracks a subject, can relay live pictures back to the operator,
Testing
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that that free flight testing and customer demonstrations of the Argus One will take place at the US Department of Energy Nevada Test Site ("N2S2") in early December 2011. These flight tests and demonstrations at N2S2 are being sponsored by the US
The editors of Popular Science magazine have selected the US Navy/Northrop Grumman Corporation developed X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System to receive a 2011 Best of What's New (BOWN) Award in the Aviation & Space category. The Award was formally announced in the magazine's December
Military
India’s domestic unmanned aircraft programme is progressing on schedule. The Rustom-2 project is spread over 66 months, according to P S Krishnan Director of Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO) laboratory. Rustom-2 would have a wingspan of over 21 meters
Commercial
At the most recent City Council meeting, officials gave Arlington Police Department permission to use of about $202,000 in Department of Homeland Security grant money to buy two small unmanned aircraft. The aircraft, known as Leptron Avengers, are battery-operated helicopters designed to take high-resolution video and photos
VTOL
L-3 WESCAM has received an order from Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Co. LLC (ADASI) for eight of its MX-10 electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) imaging systems. The turrets, to be employed on the Schiebel S-100 unmanned aircraft system platform, will assist with surveillance duties. Deliveries will