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The Federal Aviation Administration has transitioned its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, in place since 2007, with New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory, to an Other Transaction Agreement for the operation of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center.NMSU’s UAS FTC was established to provide a
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The US Patent and Trademark Office revealed an Amazon.com, Inc. patent filing, which highlighted the e-commerce giants’ plan to propel its unmanned delivery service for commercial purposes. According to the approved filing, drone deliveries will be navigated by pulling location data from a customers’ smartphone -- where real-time routes
Propulsion
Singapore-based Horizon Unmanned Systems (HUS) has launched a new hydrogen fuel cell-powered, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Hycopter is reportedly the first UAV to be powered using energy, in the form of hydrogen fuel cells, stored in it's frame structure. The ultra-light fuel cells are designed to
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Erle Robotics, a Spanish company, which has been at the forefront of using Linux in devices and had introduced the Erle-Copter powered by Ubuntu Snappy Core back in February 2015, has launched the world’s first Ubuntu powered Drone. The Erle-Copter Drone is powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core and the
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From the beginning of May, Schiebel’s unmanned helicopter CAMCOPTER® S-100 is once again supporting the MOAS foundation in the rescue of refugees in distress at sea. MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station), a registered non-profit organization based in Malta, owns a 40-meter-long vessel named Phoenix that’s used for the
Aerial Photography
Relief workers in quake-stricken Nepal say they are using drones and crowdsourced maps offered by volunteer groups as they seek to get emergency supplies to stranded survivors. Indian and Nepalese authorities are using drones to search areas inaccessible by land, while the American Red Cross is among the agencies providing
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Volz Servos GmbH & Co. KG has just released its new fully redundant DA 26-D actuator for applications with highest reliability demands. The redundant - two channel - design of the actuator allows continuous operation even if one of the two channels has failed. All major components such as the
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AirMap is a free, comprehensive digital map that allows unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators to visualize the airspace around them, including areas where they may not be permitted to fly. Airspace rules are complex. AirMap removes barriers to compliance by providing the low altitude airspace information that unmanned aircraft operators
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Cargill Inc., in an April update to its palm oil sustainability report, notes it is prepared to launch UAVs in Malaysia, the world's second-biggest grower of oil palms. "Our project with unmanned aerial vehicles is moving into the operational phase. A Cargill team is set to start
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Surveillance UAS launched from Royal Navy ships could be sent to scour the Mediterranean as part of Britain’s effort to combat the migrant crisis, under plans being drawn up by defence chiefs. The Navy’s new ScanEagle remote-controlled aircraft would search for dangerously overloaded boats packed with people making
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University of North Dakota's Technology Accelerator research center is conducting a two-year study to develop unmanned aircraft technology to automate inspections for the wind power industry and others, according to director Kevan Rusk. Rusk, who worked for Grand Forks-based turbine blade manufacturer LM Wind Power for seven years,
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Christopher Zappa , an oceanographer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, wants to understand the details of exactly how sea ice breaks up and melts, and he is going to call on a quintessentially 21st century technology to help him do it. Zappa is among a small group of scientists