Category Archives: Test Ranges

General Atomics Expands Footprint at Grand Sky

U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, center, hosted an event at the Grand Sky UAS aviation park with General Atomics CEO Linden Blue, left, and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Blue signed a lease agreement expanding the company’s Flight Test and Training Center. – PHOTO: OFFICE OF U.S. SEN. JOHN HOEVEN

Grand Sky, the first and only fully operational civil unmanned aerial systems (UAS)-focused research and development park in the U.S., announced tenant General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will significantly expand the company’s presence on the property. Continue reading

Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence Selects Penguin C

Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation (LSUASC) has selected the Penguin C unmanned aerial system, manufactured by UAV Factory, to provide low-altitude reconnaissance, storm damage, and other aerial information. The Penguin C UAS was selected due to quality of design, engineering and construction, payload versatility, endurance, long-range performance, and value. Continue reading

UFO Over Pendleton ?

Several Pendleton residents question what it was they saw in the skies over the town Wednesday morning for the better part of an hour. Virgil Bates Jr. and Tonia Smith were part of the road construction crew at the intersection of Southwest Nye and Marshall avenues when around 9 a.m. they spotted a small white object floating hundreds of feet above the south area of Pendleton. Continue reading

Canadian UAS Test Range Gets Integrated BVLOS Drone Airspace Management System

Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based geospatial visualisation software company, and the Foremost UAS Test Range, who operate one of only two Transport Canada certified UAS test ranges in Canada, announced that they have integrated the Kongsberg Geospatial IRIS UAS situational awareness application combined with uAvionix ADS-B receivers into the CCUVS Range Operations infrastructure. Continue reading