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Skyports, Future Mobility Campus Ireland, Avtrain and Shannon Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish Ireland’s first passenger and cargo vertiport. The partnership will work towards launching an operational vertiport at Shannon’s FMCI campus in 2022, thereby encouraging participation and investment in Ireland’s Advanced
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ANRA Technologies has announced SmartSkies DELIVERY, an end-to-end mobile and web-based software solution providing drone delivery services for commercial, government, and medical applications. The solution connects all the necessary stakeholders by providing the vital information and data exchanges necessary for safe, compliant, and efficient cargo and package deliveries. SmartSkies DELIVERY
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Skyports, a global vertiport company, has been selected to participate in two upcoming initiatives aimed at delivering eVTOL technology in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture. Skyports has been accepted as one of five organisations to contribute eVTOL expertise to the Osaka Smart City. Following a joint submission with Tokyo based trading
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ANRA Technologies announced that it has won NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate National Campaign 2 for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) for Community Planning and Integration activities to address key safety and integration barriers together with FlyOhio, a collaboration of public, private and academic institutions led by DriveOhio’s advanced
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NASA and The Longbow Group, LLC (LONGBOW) are entering a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with the intention of establishing beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight-corridors for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) unmanned aerial system (UAS) flight tests in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Under this agreement, NASA’s Langley Research Center (LaRC) will partner
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Five state and local government entities have signed agreements with NASA’s aeronautical innovators to work together in considering how emerging cargo-carrying drone and passenger-carrying air taxi services can best be included in their civic transportation plans. The five cooperative activities will take place through summer of 2022, each including
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UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider Altitude Angel, has announced that the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre (SAC) has become the second UK airport to deploy its GuardianUTM Enterprise platform. The Snowdonia Aerospace Centre, in Gwynedd, Wales, is one of Europe’s foremost commercial test centres for next-generation aerospace and future flight
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Just in the past few years, more than an estimated 700,000 unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, have been purchased and are flying around our skies. With the push for these unmanned aircraft to be used in our daily lives for tasks such as; delivering goods to our door steps,
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Lilium GmbH has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Qell Acquisition Corp., a publicly listed special purpose acquisition company. Qell, led by Barry Engle, a former president of General Motors North America, is focused on developing next-generation, sustainable mobility. Upon closing of the transaction, the company will be
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Metro Hop has the green light from the United States Air Force Agility Prime program to test its patent pending Active Landing Gear. This unique landing gear allows Metro Hop’s all-electric, short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft to fly up to 250 mph with substantial payloads, while operating nearly
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Altitude Angel, a global leading UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, has been selected by Dutch drone enterprise solutions innovator AirHub to power its operations management software platform. The AirHub platform offers drone operators one, easy-to-use, workflow to plan, execute and manage missions legally and efficiently. It provides operators with
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‘‘U-SPACE INSIGHT’’, an international survey on U-space is now online. It is being conducted in the framework of the AW-Drones Project, which is funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Programme. The survey has been put together with the assistance of 23 subject matter experts with complementary expertise