sUAS News

Silent Falcon UAS Technologies, a manufacturer of long range, long endurance, silent, solar-electric powered UAS, announced today it has partnered with Ascent Vision, specialises in precision-imaging Gimbal Sensor Technology, making Ascent Vision their preferred supplier of gimbaled payloads. “The Silent Falcon UAS can easily integrate a wide variety of payloads, and we’ve integrated five (5) […]

Today, we are happy to announce our Pix4Dmapper Desktop 3.2 release. The new version has great advancement in stability and usability – Upload desktop projects to cloud is now 10x faster; Camera parameter correlations are displayed in the quality report for easier troubleshooting and assessment; New key output: tiled level-of-detail mesh is available in osgb […]

HAZON Solutions (“HAZON”), the national leader in drone inspection services, announced today the launch of the HAZON Drone Management System (HAZON DMS). HAZON DMS is a secure, web-based management tool providing every drone operator, whether a hobbyist with a single drone or a large corporation with hundreds of drones, a way to safely and efficiently […]

Skyline UAV based in Australia are now offering a UAV Banner Towing service. This is something a friend of mine has done with real helicopters over London and it’s a right faff with amusing outcomes when you have to cut away. This goes straight into my very impressed folder. If you know flying wings you […]

Edgybees, an augmented reality technology company, Tuesday launched a new augmented reality (AR) mobile application that is compatible with DJI drones, including the Phantom 3, the Phantom 4 and the Mavic Pro. Developed using DJI’s software development kit, the ‘Drone Prix’ is the first ever AR mobile app created specifically for DJI’s aerial platforms, allowing […]

British-based expert drone consultant, Consortiq, is securing its global status as it announces the opening of its new office in America. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, this strategic move allows the company to neighbour Washington D.C, a central East Coast drone innovation hub. Sending its aerial expertise overseas, this new expansion enables it to work closely […]

Starting January 1, 2020, you must be equipped with ADS-B Out to fly in most controlled airspace. Download the Equip ADS-B Google Earth map to look at the location of ADS-B rule airspace at your home base and where you fly. Pan and zoom to different locations and turn on the various capabilities the map […]

DroneDeploy is the leading drone software platform, enabling customers in farming, construction, and mining, to understand the world from the air. We’re a small and dynamic team, taking on the hardest engineering problems in the industry, while maintaining a clean and accessible design. We’re looking for a lead designer to help us build out and […]

Northwest UAV is now developing a NW-88 Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel Engine for 2017. Using design elements from the NW-44 Engine, the NW-88 Engine will bring the world class NWUAV reliability and efficiency to a new category of aircraft. McMinnville, OR: Northwest UAV (NWUAV) has initiated development of their new NW-88 Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV propulsion system based […]

A big fanfare from around the world last week as Kevin Finisterre revealed that DJI had initiated no-fly zones for war-torn areas. DJI drones are being used to drop primitive ordinance with deadly results. Fast forward one week and CNN reporter Gabriel Chaim used the old tinfoil trick to cover the GPS on his DJI […]

With a legacy of delivering reliable, robust, and highly accurate small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), NASA has awarded Black Swift Technologies (BST), a specialized engineering firm based in Boulder, CO, the contract to develop and deliver a purpose-built scientific platform to explore volcanoes in order to improve air traffic management systems and the accuracy of ash fall measurements. BST […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s home. IBM […]

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today unveiled the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision C5 DSP, the industry’s first standalone, self-contained neural network DSP IP core optimized for vision, radar/lidar and fused-sensor applications with high-availability neural network computational needs. Targeted for the automotive, surveillance, drone and mobile/wearable markets, the Vision C5 DSP offers 1TMAC/sec computational capacity to […]

Speaker Series happening May 4th & 5th Golden Gate Club, 135 Fisher Loop, Presidio, San Francisco, 94129 This year’s line-up will deliver more top-notch content for the drone businessperson. Among the roster of drone experts and news makers this year are Kevin Finisterre, Department 13 (who just broke the world wide DJI Syria and Iraqi […]

Pix4D is the main provider and industry standard for professional drone photogrammetry software. Pix4D is a dynamic and rapidly expanding company with headquarters in Lausanne and local offices in San Francisco and Shanghai. Pix4D is the only solution providing desktop, cloud, and mobile solution for drone mapping. You can find many professionals describing their use […]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have gone in just a few short years from something associated solely with the military to being tested for Amazon Prime delivery, having a starring role in a Super Bowl halftime performance and being used by everyday people for basic flying fun. If there’s been one segment of the […]

What could happen if a drone hit a person on the ground? What’s the risk of serious injury? Can those risks be reduced? Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can’t yet definitively answer those questions, studies by a consortium of leading universities through the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), have […]

A volcanic archipelago in the Central Pacific of only 11,000 square miles, Hawaii has seen sustained economic growth for the last few years, and a record-breaking pace for the tourism industry. Construction benefits from this growth with an increasing need for infrastructure. Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company (HDCC) is the oldest and largest general contractor in Hawaii. […]

Skeye have signed a GeoXphere Market Partner agreement to use and distribute XCAM in the UK, expanding on their UAV capabilities. We are pleased to announce that Skeye has been appointed the GeoXphere Market Partner for the United Kingdom. They will be leading the capture of aerial photography using the revolutionary XCAM. This complements and […]

We are excited to announce that 3DR has recently raised $53 million in capital as part of our Series D funding round. This round includes both new equity and conversion of debt equity. It was led by Atlantic Bridge, and with investments from the Autodesk Forge Fund, True Ventures, Foundry Group, Mayfield, and a number […]

Matt Fanelli Senior Manager for Strategy at Skyward One of the most staggering statistics that the Federal Aviation Administration revealed at a recent UAS Symposium was that businesses submit more than 3,000 Part 107 waiver requests per week. So it’s no wonder that it can take up to 90 days for requesters to get response—the […]

Today, Sentera announced the release of its Multispectral Double 4K Sensor, offering five precise spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR). This sensor enables users to collect visual band imagery as well as vegetation indices based upon the addition of NIR or Red Edge, including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and normalized […]

Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] advanced tactical Group 3 unmanned aerial system (UAS), Fury, is regularly flying long-range endurance test missions as the company prepares it for low-rate production. In flight tests since May 2016, Fury has flown more than 200 hours and reliably demonstrated more than 12-hour endurance, while simultaneously operating 100 pounds of payloads, […]

If you can identify who flew and disrupted flights at Chengdu airport in April 2017, DJI might give you $145,000. No suprise that this press release does not seem to in English on the DJI site. It is below in all it’s Google translate glory. Some pressure must be being exerted on DJI at home. DJI […]

uAvionix Corporation, the leader in avionics products for small UAS (sUAS) today announced a new line of four integrated Ping transceivers and navigation products reducing weight and installation complexity. The new hardware is available and shipping now to customers worldwide. The Ping2020i, Ping1090i, Ping200Sr and Ping200Si products combine the existing transceiver product line of Ping2020, […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, and Hasselblad, the leader in high-quality professional medium format cameras, Tuesday marked the start of the next era of aerial photography by introducing the first 100-megapixel integrated drone imaging platform. The DJI M600 Pro drone, the Ronin-MX gimbal and the Hasselblad H6D-100c camera combine […]

Aireon and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a successful flight test of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, collecting ADS-B data to be used as part of a larger validation effort exploring the new system’s capability from low-earth orbit. The flight took place on Thursday, March 30, 2017, utilising the FAA’s specially equipped […]

Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has successfully powered test flights of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the Company’s PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cell propulsion system. The ScanEagle is manufactured by Insitu (www.insitu.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. “These test flights have […]

Local organizations will announce a major economic development project involving drones, unmanned vehicles and robotics in Hazard, KY on Monday April 24 at the Hazard Community & Technical College campus at 1:00 p.m. Land has been donated for the “USA Drone Port: National Unmanned Robotic Research and Development Center “for drone research, testing, training, advanced […]

Airware, which provides end-to-end solutions that turn aerial data into actionable business intelligence for enterprises, has signed a global distribution agreement with senseFly, the world’s leading producer of fixed-wing mapping drones, to bring the survey-grade eBee Plus to its enterprise customers. Airware ’s end-to-end solutions for mining, quarrying, and construction sites harness drone technology to […]

Uber announced today that it has selected Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network. The formal announcement of the initiative partners took place at Uber’s Elevate Summit in Dallas, Texas. “Uber is taking a big step forward toward making the world’s first […]

Since the first sUSB Expo we have been proud to bring you the cutting edge of the drone world and real world applications. Not the least of which has been the Public Safety/Search and Rescue aspect of unmanned aircraft. This year, the sUSB Expo has expanded this sector with a program that is keeping up […]

Microdrones, a global manufacturer of professional unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is pleased to announce they are partnering with SITECH South, a leading provider of construction equipment and services in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. SITECH South will now offer Microdrones mdMapper solutions – complete UAV packages with everything needed for surveying and mapping. “We’re excited to […]

NTT DOCOMO, INC., in a continuing quest to create innovative new business, has developed a spherical drone display – an unmanned aerial vehicle that displays LED images on an omnidirectional spherical screen while in flight – which DOCOMO believes to be a world first (as of April 16, 2017). The device comprises a spherical external […]

Novadrone and Sevilla University researchers are collaborating in a Research and Development project to help the rice crop industry to optimise rice production. During two years several flights will be conducted. The research study has two main objectives. The first objective is to compare in real time, satellite captured images with drone captured images, in the aim to find […]

Here’s their headline, “ZEROTECH Leaks New Pocket Drone Hesper and Introduces ZEROSPACE Drone Formation Dance Set” So they have announced a product in a press release and describe it as a leak. DJI are really good at leaks and Zerotech must have seen that. The Hesper, well it’s another quad. Zerospace, now that is a […]

It’s the weekend and pilots from all over California are gathering to build, tune, and race drones around the first permanent drone racing track on the west coast of the United States. Drone racing has been the fastest expanding sector of the drone industry and certainly is the most innovative. I took a trip to […]

We will be hosting an open house as part of this year’s Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition. The public is invited to come on out to Treasure Island to see live product demonstrations from vendors like DroneDeploy, PropellerAero, Skyefish, Pix4D and others. This is an opportunity for the public to tour the facilities and see […]

The collaboration between Seagate and DJI announced earlier this year is bearing fruit. Fly Drive has hit the market and is expected to retail for $119.99 and will be on display at NAB. Drones are creating more content than ever before, and with the announcement of the Seagate DJI Fly Drive, managing that surge of data […]

HAEVIC, well- known drone manufacturer of Potchefstroom, South Africa have introduced a new drone platform which can deliver complete and highly accurate multispectral images of crops within minutes. These advanced graphics give the farmer an immediate indication where diseases or plant stress can be found in his crop fields. Usually, it takes 2 to 7 […]

Social media was abuzz with hopes of the DJI Spark and or Phantom5 launch for NAB 2017 but many were disappointed that it’s the posh Cendence controller and a tracking antenna. I have heard it said that DJI flight controllers have toy-like simplicity. Personally, I think they are form and function distilled to where they […]

The Northwest UAV NW-44 Engine – the only cutting edge propulsion system ever developed for small unmanned aerial systems – has now successfully logged over 1000 combat flight hours, demonstrating its unique value to the UAS community by changing what’s possible with small UAVs. McMinnville, OR: In just a few years, from concept to first […]

Callen-Lenz and its subsidiary SkyCircuits specialise in manned and unmanned aircraft operations and technology. Our business is rapidly expanding in exciting and technically challenging areas of aviation. As an Embedded Systems Programmer you will be joining the SkyCircuits team developing, designing and manufacturing advanced avionics systems including autopilot and ground station systems for unmanned aircraft. […]

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State University will lead a major research and development project for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after a rigorous and highly competitive review process. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has selected Mississippi as the new base of operations for small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), commonly known as drones, […]

Facebook would like to quickly connect people in the event of an emergency. Yale Maguire has revealed that they have been experimenting with a helicopter lifting a hotspot. Making the internet reach parts other service providers just can’t reach. It’s not a new way of doing business, in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi received the letter S in morse […]

This year, Earth Day is Race Day! On Saturday, April 22, the Aerial and Aquatic Robot Research group (AARR) from the California State University Channel Islands is hosting the first ever Drone Data Race in Camarillo, CA. The event is sponsored by Pix4D, the industry leader in professional drone mapping and photogrammetric software solutions. Drone […]

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Yamaha Motor) and enRoute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter enRoute) have recently started discussions for a business alliance in the industrial drone business. Both companies aim to conclude a business agreement in August, and utilize each of their products and business know-how for 1) Global expansion of the industrial drone business including […]

Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) and UAV Turbines Inc. (UAVT) have announced plans for a joint flight demonstration of NASC’s TigerShark aircraft with a UAVT micro-turboprop propulsion system. First flights are scheduled prior to year-end 2017. This will mark the first time that a Group 3 UAV is powered by a micro-turboprop engine with a new […]

Sky-Futures has launched Flightdeck, the latest addition to the Expanse® software suite for professional drone missions. Flightdeck offers drone operators an integrated cloud-based solution to safely plan and execute commercial drone operations as well as manage pilots, drone equipment and mission information in one place. Compliance and audit tasks for drone operations can now be […]