Commercial
One day in the not-so-distant future, Northwell Health could have a fleet of emergency drones that can quickly respond to an accident, an opioid overdose or even a terrorist attack, using telehealth to communicate with patients at the scene. There’s still plenty of red tape to cut
Business
Esina Alic has been named Insitu President and Chief Executive Officer, assuming the role effective April 5. Alic rejoins Insitu from adidas in Germany where she served as senior vice president of Global Operations, Strategy and Programs. Prior to adidas, she held a number of senior executive positions in business,
Commercial
Kitty Hawk, the secretive flying-car startup funded by Alphabet CEO Larry Page, has finally taken the wraps off its flying taxi, which it calls Cora. In a quiet corner of Canterbury, a new type of autonomous, electric "flying car" has been secretly tested since October. Its creators
UAM/UTM
skyguide, the Swiss air navigation service provider, and AirMap, a global airspace management platform for drones, announced that they will develop and deploy the first national drone traffic management system in Europe. The system will be the first national deployment of U-space, Europe’s vision for the digital infrastructure
UAM/UTM
DEEP AERO is building an AI-driven, autonomous, self-governing, intelligent drone/unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) platform on the Blockchain. It is designed to enable safe low-altitude civilian flights of manned and unmanned aircraft in the shared airspace. The DEEP AERO UTM platform will harmonize integration
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it has received U.S. State Department approval to market its Mako High Performance Jet Tactical Unmanned Aerial System to certain European and Asia Pacific region countries. Kratos Mako provides fighter-like performance and is designed to function as a wingman to
Military
The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) is preparing for the introduction into service of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) Protector unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with a dedicated team currently working through the issues in the United States. The Protector Combined Test Team (CTT) is now co-ordinating
Events
The US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao addressed the audience at the FAA’s UAS Symposium (March 6- 8) by means of a recorded video. She announced that operations over people, night flight, and flight beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) were on the way. While she understands that stakeholders
Propulsion
A team of researchers from Sydney have successfully powered an unmanned aircraft flight with a triple hybrid propulsion system featuring one of the cleanest energies on Earth – hydrogen. Led by University of Sydney aerospace engineering PhD candidate Andrew Gong, the team of researchers – including Dr Dries Verstraete from the University’
Commercial
Spanish tech company SigmaRail recently used drones to perform a survey of the Alicante-Murcia high-speed line in south-eastern Spain. The data captured has been used to create an accurate digital model of the rail corridor in order to validate performance and examine engineering priorities. Unmanned aerial vehicles
Business
Airspace Systems has built what it calls “kinetic capture” technologies, which currently consists of a ground-based system that identifies an offending unmanned aircraft, then launches its own drone to chase it down, fire a tethered net at it and carry it away. But the compmay has shifted attention from
Commercial
Norwegian scientists, currently on campaign in Finland, conduct their first autonomous landing with a model aircraft packed with weather sensors. This marks the next step in the process of automating meteorological data retrieval. For weather research, radio probes are used in a balloon-packed sensor pack. Then the whole package