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ARA Robotics will unveil SKYMATE, a new commercial flight controller built for multirotor UAV configurations, dedicated to industrial applications such as 2D/3D aerial inspection and mapping, at XPONENTIAL 2018. With many years of flight validation in harsh Canadian weather, ARA Robotics has proven its product’s reliability across multiple
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uAvionix Corporation announced that it has successfully completed testing and demonstration of the DroneAware™ uAvionix UAS Remote Identification solution for NASA’s Technical Capability Level 3 (TCL3) UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system. The tests were conducted in coordination with North Dakota’s Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NP UAS TS)
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Australian sensor video analytics provider Sentient Vision will soon showcase its “game changing” ViDAR optical radar system, which gives tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) the ability to cover up to 80 times more ocean in a single sortie than the same UAS equipped with existing EO/IR systems. The Sentient
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Fortem Technologies, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah-based company developing advanced radar systems for unmanned and manned aircraft, announced that it has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by DCVC (Data Collective) with key participation from Boeing and Mubadala Investment Company, as well as Manifest Growth,
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Cobham SATCOM has a range of versatile solutions from the world’s most compact to the highest performance Inmarsat terminals. At the Singapore Air Show, Cobham demonstrates the flexibility of its exclusive product range by showcasing the AVIATOR UAV 200. As the world’s smallest and lightest Inmarsat UAV satcom
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Mayflower Communications Company has delivered its Multi-Platform Anti-Jam GPS Navigation Antenna–Federated (MAGNA-F) to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). Mayflowers’ GPS anti-jam system (MAGNA) provides protection for multiple military GPS receiver types (C/A and SAASM). The AFSOC platform has been proven
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Aurora Flight Sciences is collaborating with Socionext Inc., a top expert in radar sensor technology, to provide a radar-enabled collision protection system for consumer drones. The Radar Flight Control Module (RFCM) is comprised of a single-chip 24GHz radar with range measurement software. The radar responds acutely to its
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Iris Automation, a provider of collision avoidance for commercial drones, has announced an $8 million Series A financing round to fund the development of crucial unlocking technologies for the autonomous flying robotics industry. Combining novel approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and sensor fusion, Iris Automation has built a
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Northrop Grumman will prepare to modify the MQ-4C Triton unmanned air system with an emerging technology that can be used to help the maritime surveillance aircraft sense and avoid other objects in flight. The US Naval Air Systems Command intends to award a contract to sole-source Northrop to
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Materion Corporation has been awarded a contract by UTC Aerospace Systems for AlBeMet metal matrix composite parts for its MS-177 long-range, multi-spectral imaging (MSI) sensor. The sensor is currently undergoing integration testing and qualification for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Materion
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TeAx Technology, a solution provider for thermal imaging technology within the global drone industry has unveiled another product: ThermalCapture IRnet. It provides an Ethernet interface for live data streaming to new and existing FLIR Tau 2 cores and FLIR Vue Pro / R cores. Connectivity by Ethernet – A strongly increasing choice
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Led by inventor and entrepreneur David Hall, Velodyne LiDAR has announced a significant cost reduction for its VLP-16 Puck, which will spur hope and excitement for the development of safe autonomous vehicles that are accessible to all. Velodyne’s most popular LiDAR sensor, the VLP-16, is now offered