Military
Aevum, Inc., a provider of comprehensive space logistics and autonomous launch services for lightweight payloads, on Thursday December 3rd rolled out its Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle, the world’s largest Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), by mass, designed to deliver satellites to space as fast as every 180 minutes. Aevum’
Agriculture
Iowa City-based startup Rantizo, which uses drones to spray crops, has just closed a $7.5 million Series A round led by Leaps by Bayer, with participation from a number of other agtech-focused investors – including Fall Line Capital, Innova Memphis, Lewis & Clark Ventures, KZValve, and Sukup Manufacturing. It brings
Accidents
An unmanned MQ-8C helicopter was damaged in a ground mishap Nov. 16, the second major mishap involving the new Charlie variant of the Fire Scout this month. The drone was damaged during testing of a lithium ion battery that involved taking the aircraft idling at Maryland’s Webster Field, according
Military
The United Arab Emirates has armed southern separatists with unmanned drones, officials from Yemen's intentionally-recognised government said. The drones were allegedly shot down by government forces amid ongoing battles in Abyan, Mukhtar Al-Rahbi, the advisor to the minister of information said on Twitter. "These aircraft were delivered
First Responders
Vodafone Business has unveiled a powerful new service, combining the ultra-quick response times of distributed Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) technology with the fast speeds of 5G. Vodafone is the first company in Europe to enable organisations to create pilot applications using distributed MEC with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is
Military
The U.S. Navy has selected L3Harris Technologies to participate in phase two of a demonstration to identify and evaluate unmanned aerial systems capable of operating in austere deployed environments without additional support systems. L3Harris was one of two teams (along with Martin UAV ) selected by Naval Air Warfare Center
Business
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Altavian, Inc., a privately-held manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) for defense and public safety customers. Altavian’s airframes integrate multiple sensors, including FLIR thermal technology, to provide users with decision support and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. Based in
Propulsion
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Australian Department of Defence have announced a bilateral effort to advance the development of air-breathing hypersonic technologies. The Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment (SCIFiRE) is an Allied Prototyping Initiative (API) under the Directorate for Advanced Capabilities within the Office of the
Accidents
Residents of Wajir County in Kenya were shocked after a drone believed to be involved in surveillance crash landed in Eldas. The drone landed sometime in the afternoon on Sunday, November 29, with residents throwing suspicious looks to this strange object, which no one had come to claim. Reports indicated
Testing
The Airbus Helicopters VSR700 optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) has successfully achieved fully autonomous takeoff and landing (ATOL) approaches, validating its autonomy to and from a moving platform and advancing the VSR700 programme towards its end goal: offering a tactical unmanned aerial system (UAS) with ATOL capacities for global navies. The
Military
SpearUAV, Tel-Aviv-based developers and suppliers of unique UAS solutions for defense and HLS applications, successfully demonstrated its leading encapsulated drone system, the Ninox 40 Hand-Held, to the Department of Defense (DOD), in the presence of representatives from the U.S. Army (Army), U.S. Navy (USN), U.S. Marines (USMC)
News
Snowdonia Aerospace has launched a public consultation, open to everyone, on a proposed change to the airspace designation around Llanbedr Airfield. The consultation begins on Monday 7th December 2020 and will run for 7 weeks before closing on Friday 22nd January 2021. The Snowdonia Aerospace Centre (SAC) is a UK