At the World ATM Congress in Madrid Unifly presented an e-Identification and tracking solution for drones. The device works in a completely independent fashion, with its own power source and sensors for position, altitude, temperature, pressure, speed and direction. As soon as the pilot attaches it to a drone, it is ready for use. Continue reading
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Echodyne to Provide Radar for NASA UTM Program
Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative, high-performance radars for government and commercial markets, announced that its radar platform has been selected by two Technology Capability Level 4 (TCL4) awardees of NASA’s UAS Traffic Management (UTM) program – Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems Unmanned Aviation Safety (NIAS-UAS) Center of Excellence. Continue reading
AirMap and Honeywell Develop Cost-Effective Tracking Solution For Drones
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AirMap, a global airspace management platform for drones, and Honeywell have announced the development of a cost-effective drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system. Continue reading
NASA to Test Drone UTM in Nevada and Texas
NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. Continue reading
Unifly Raises $16.7M in Series B Funding Round
Unifly, a Belgium-based drone traffic management provider, has raised a total of 14,6 mio Euro ( 16,8 mio US$ ) in a B-round, bringing the total invested capital so far to 21 mio Euro ( 26,5 mio US$ ). Continue reading
Airbus Develops Drone Tracking Device
The Drone-it! device, collaboratively developed by Airbus Defence and Space, aims to tackle the issue of the risk of aircraft collisions by monitoring and separating drone traffic. Continue reading
NASA Demos Drones for Disaster Recovery in Japan
NASA has partnered with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, to successfully demonstrate the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (known as UAS, or drones) on a use case to support emergency response and disaster recovery activities. Continue reading
ANRA Technologies UTM Joins UK Pathfinder Programme
ANRA Technologies, a provider of commercial drone operations and unmanned traffic management platforms announced that it has been selected for the UK UAS Traffic Management (UTM) program. The Program is part of a wider program which is government led and across the public and private sectors, aimed at enabling safe integration of drones into UK airspace. Continue reading