There is a misconception about drones that they are banned in India. In reality, its use is just restricted, said Lt Cdr John Livingstone, founder of Indian Institute of Drones, New Delhi, on Saturday. The city centre will be the only of its kind in central India for drone pilot
Test Ranges
Senator John Hoeven announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a two-year certificate of authorization (COA) for the Northern Plains UAS Test Site to fly large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) beyond the visual line of sight of the operator. The COA allows large UAS to fly 30
After launching in August 2017, Mobilicom Ltd.’s SkyHopper technology has completed its first year of activity. A provider of “global mission-critical-communications” systems, Mobilicom describes SkyHopper as a “holistic solution” for commercial and industrial UAS and robotics. In its first year of activity, SkyHopper was sold to, and
NASA's Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP) Aerospace Academy (MAA) has selected seven Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) for cooperative agreement awards totalling nearly $2.3 million. The grants will be used to build the interest, skills and knowledge necessary for K-12 students to pursue science, technology,
Commercial
Cloud-based drone telepresence and data management company Cape has partnered with the City of San Diego for a public drone deployment that markets the city’s first UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP)demonstration by the San Diego Fire Department. The company’s launch in San Diego has now joined
Commercial
Cyberhawk has successfully completed the first full ABS Intermediate Hull Survey 4 on an oil tanker using UAVs. Cyberhawk performed full class inspection across 19 tanks onboard an oil tanker while at a shipyard in Singapore. This included 12 Cargo Oil Tanks (COT), two slop tanks and five ballast tanks.
Drones and unmanned aircraft will be able to fly in the same airspace as manned aircraft under plans announced by Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd and Cranfield University. The partners intend to create NBEC (the National Beyond visual line of sight Experimentation Corridor). The corridor will stretch across Bedfordshire from
C-UAS
Israeli startup RoboTiCan Ltd.’s solution to attack drones? Sending a bigger drone to hunt them down midair. RoboTiCan's drone can detect, intercept, and crash into hostile drones, destroying them. Dubbed Goshawk, the drone interfaces with radar systems to detect unmanned aerial vehicles from an undisclosed distance and
C-UAS
Two drones launched by militants have been downed by the Russian military near the Hmeymim airbase in Syria, according to the chief of the Russia Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties Alexei Tsygankov. "During the past day, radars of the Russian airbase at Hmeymim spotted two unmanned aerial
Business
Grand Sky, the first and only fully operational civil unmanned aerial systems (UAS)-focused research and development park in the U.S., announced tenant General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will significantly expand the company’s presence on the property. Under the agreement, GA-ASI’s leased space will
Business
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, has been awarded a $5,000 minimum, $232,000,000 maximum additional task order under an existing non-competitive, single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (H92222-16-D-0031) for mid-endurance unmanned aircraft systems (MEUAS II-B) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services. This task
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NASA has been leading efforts designed to help integrate unmanned aircraft into the world around us. On June 12, NASA completed a major program milestone by successfully demonstrating the maturity of Detect and Avoid (DAA) technology by flying an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) out in the National Airspace System (NAS)