Transport
Uber Eats successfully tested its first food delivery by drone recently, in a high-density urban area with the assistance of technology from San Diego-based startup ModalAI. As the drone carried its edible cargo, VOXL, a powerful yet light-weight computing platform with 4G cellular connectivity, helped keep it safely on the
Testing
The US Navy has carried out a series of fleet experiments with multiple unmanned aerial and undersea systems aboard the expeditionary fast transport (EFT) vessel, USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1). Testing was conducted in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Key West, Florida, and included the V-BAT vertical take-off and
Business
Pierce Aerospace, a U.S. based Remote ID UAS Service Supplier (RID-USS), and Redwing Labs, a Bengaluru, India based drone delivery company, have announced a partnership to advance global medical drone deliveries. The partnership combines the strengths of Pierce Aerospace’s Remote Identification expertise and technologies and Redwing Labs'
Testing
Researchers at two German universities have tested an experimental automatic landing system on a light aircraft that uses optical information from onboard cameras and satellite positioning data, instead of ground-based navigation aids. The system was tested in May at Wiener Neustadt airfield in Austria on a modified Diamond DA42 piston-twin
Testing
The first two demos in the Gulf of Finland (GOF) U-space project mark a leap forward in the implementation of unmanned traffic management (UTM) in Europe. For the first time ever, general aviation aircraft, drones, and recreational remote-controlled model aircraft safely shared the airspace above and around an operational airfield
Testing
Textron has confirmed that it has completed test flights of the Block III upgrade configuration for its Shadow UAV, which when introduced will add more capability and reliability to the U.S. Army’s in-service fleet. Conducted at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the five-week test campaign completed
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The Patroller tactical drone, developed and produced in France by Safran Electronics & Defense, has started the final phase of the industrial qualification at the Istres DGA flight test center in southern France. Patroller has already made more than 220 flights, clearly demonstrating that it meets all assigned criteria: automated
Commercial
Black Swift Technologies, a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, announced that it has been awarded a NOAA contract to develop an air-deployed unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to perform lower boundary layer observations in difficult atmospheric conditions that are commonly encountered in convective storms, e.g. hurricanes and tropical
Testing
The MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) – designed and developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) – has now flown more than 100 test flights as development continues towards its first delivery to the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of the Protector RG Mk1 programme. Since making its
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NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above busy
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A research project in the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University is focused on increasing the endurance of UAS, or unmanned aerial systems. Through a combination of solar power and the utilization of atmospheric updrafts called thermals, a UAS could fly for several hours as opposed to the
Testing
The AirMap team has also been busy with several exciting drone demonstration projects throughout the United States. AirMap was selected recently as a program partner for both NASA’s TCL4 trials in Texas and Nevada as well as the FAA’s UAS Traffic Management Pilot Program (UPP) at Virginia Tech.