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NASA Concludes UAS NAS Integration Flight Tests
NASA’s Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft (front-right) along with five flight “intruders”. Credits: NASA / Carla Thomas. NASA has confirmed that a two-month flight test series came to a close on...
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GA-ASI and NLR to Support RPA Integration into Non-Segregated Airspace
Artistic rendering of the Certifiable Predator B UAS General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI) and the NLR-Netherlands Aerospace Centre have executed an agreement to support expanded...
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UTC Aerospace Systems to Integrate ISR Sensor onto Global Hawk UAS
UTC Aerospace Systems, a supplier of aerospace and defense products, has been awarded a contract to support the integration and testing of the MS-177 multi-spectral imaging (MSI) and long-range...
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General Atomics Predator C Avenger Receives FAA Experimental Certificate
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has announced that its company-owned Predator C Avenger RPA system has achieved a historic milestone in receiving a FAA-issued Experimental...
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Airbus Demonstrates Aircraft Inspection by UAV
Airbus has announced that it has demonstrated aircraft visual inspection using a drone at the Farnborough Airshow. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), equipped with a high definition camera, performed...
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Honeywell and IAI to Develop Sense-And-Avoid Capabilities For UAS
Honeywell has announced that it is partnering with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to jointly develop a sense-and-avoid capability for IAI’s Heron family of unmanned aerial systems (UASs). Selected...
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DJI and AirMap Introduce Real-Time Wildfire Awareness and Geofencing...
DJI, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and AirMap, a provider of airspace intelligence and navigation services, have announced that they have added real-time wildfire alerts to their...
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Northrop Grumman and Triumph Group to Advance UAS Production
Triumph Group, Inc., a manufacturer of aircraft components and systems, has announced the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Northrop Grumman Corporation at the Farnborough...
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L-3 Communications EO/IR Imaging System Selected for Predator XP UAS
The WESCAM division of L-3 Communications has received multiple orders from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) for its MXTM-15D electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) designator systems for...
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US Army Orders CyPhy Works Tethered Drone
CyPhy Works, a developer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has received an order for its Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) System from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force...
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Drone Aviation Launches ‘Bolt’ Heavy-Lift Tethered Drone
Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has introduced the ‘Bolt’ tethered UAV platform. Designed to meet a range of military applications...
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Thales Launches Fulmar X Flexible UAV System
Thales has announced the launch of Fulmar X, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system designed to meet the needs of both military and civil customers in order to suit a wide range of surveillance...
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Aerospace States Association and AUVSI Partner to Advance Unmanned Aviation
The Aerospace States Association (ASA), a non-partisan aerospace organisation of state Lieutenant Governors, and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) have signed an...
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Drone2Map for ArcGIS Integrates with Aeryon SkyRanger UAS
Drone2Map Inspection Viewer Aeryon Labs have confirmed that the application can be used to process data from their SkyRanger sUAS within the Esri platform. By combining images from the Aeryon SkyRanger...
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Flirtey Completes First FAA-Approved Drone Home Delivery
Flirtey, a drone delivery service, has completed the first fully autonomous drone delivery to a private residence to advance research toward integrating drones into the National Airspace System. This...
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German Forces to Deploy Heron 1 UAS in Mali, Operated by Airbus
The German Defence Procurement Agency (BAAInBw) and Airbus Defence and Space have signed a contract to provide Heron 1 surveillance drones to support the Bundeswehr mission in Mali. Similar to the...
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Raytheon to Develop Networking Technology for Manned-Unmanned Aircraft...
DARPA’s Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization (DyNAMO) program Raytheon Company has announced that it is developing new technologies to allow the next generation of manned and unmanned...
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Lehmann Aviation Announces New Drones for Professional Mapping Applications
Lehmann Aviation, a developer of drones for civil applications, has announced the launch of its new L-A Series line of professional mapping drones. The new L-A Series is comprised of three autonomous...
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Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAS Surpasses 200,000 Flight Hours
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its autonomous Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has surpassed 200,000 flight hours, reinforcing its status as an effective high altitude, long...
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UVIONIX and NASA to Use Drones for Asteroid Analysis
UVIONIX Aerospace, a developer of intelligent autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that in conjunction with partners SETI Institute, NVIDIA and Autodesk, it will be supporting...
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