Data Links & Communications
Echodyne, the manufacturer of high-performance radars for securing critical infrastructure and guiding autonomous machines, announced that it has received FCC certification for its EchoFlight radar. Previously available only for experimental purposes, the airborne detect and avoid radar is designed for integration into a wide-variety of UAS platforms and provides unprecedented
Data Links & Communications
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new method that gives aircraft a backup system in case GPS fails: An antenna on the ground that can tell a drone where it is. The team successfully tested their system in June. Christopher LumAutonomous Flight Systems Laboratory The team’s
Data Links & Communications
Drone communications must be stable and widely available, should cost as little as possible, and work reliably even when out of sight. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, HHI in Berlin have found a solution: call a drone. "miracle cure" fluctuates greatly, depending on the material
Data Links & Communications
Persistent Systems' Auto-Tracking Antenna System, the new portable ground-to-air antenna that operates on the Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is designed to incorporate aircraft into the MANET, and is a complete, easy-to-assemble system. “The Auto-Tracking Antenna System represents a major step towards achieving the vision of a
Data Links & Communications
Persistent Systems, LLC announced that it has entered into a five-year partnership with MartinUAV, LLC. MartinUAV will incorporate Persistent’s Wave Relay Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) technology into the V-BAT, a small vertical takeoff-and-land (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). “Persistent is proud to have been selected out of the
Data Links & Communications
In an effort to increase flexibility for its customers throughout the world, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) announced that MQ-9B will be able to utilise both the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and European Galileo satellite constellation for its navigation systems. The baseline MQ-9B was originally designed
Business
Dejero, a provider of cloud-managed solutions that provide video transport and Internet connectivity while mobile or in remote locations, has formed a technology partnership with Canadian-based Draganfly Innovations Inc. The collaboration sees Draganfly’s Commander UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) quadcopter bundled together with the Dejero EnGo mobile transmitter—providing real-time
Commercial
The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance selected Raytheon as a key partner in the development of America’s first and most advanced unmanned aircraft system-testing airspace corridor in New York state. Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business will help plan, design, build and support the state’s next-generation
Data Links & Communications
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has evolved its Tac4G tactical communication system to enable it to be integrated with tactical UAS Developed by Elta, the Tac4G broadband tactical communications system provides robust and secure communications for military, law enforcement, border control and para-military applications. It connects end-users, sensors and weapon systems
Commercial
Nokia is actively working alongside a university in Sydney on brainstorming use-cases for drones in the agriculture and public safety sectors, as well as establishing a reliable drone network for Australian airspace. "The idea is to ... [demonstrate] what we've been doing in Finland, and experience sharing from
Commercial
Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus will foster drone business as one of its new growth drivers by expanding its fledgling aerial robotics to a wide range of businesses in the public and private sectors, including transportation, logistics and safety inspections, powered by its nationwide wireless network. The company officially added
Military
Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, recently celebrated a successful trial deployment of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball Edge in Queensland, Australia. AWS Snowball is a service that accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the internet. AWS Snowball