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Introducing the newest addition to their growing range, Currawong is releasing the CortexHeavy Fuel Hybrid System. As a series hybrid this engine system will take to the sky with industry leading power density, an innovative new fuel and features Currawong’s well-developed power electronics. The hybrid architecture allows the engine to provide power to onboard electrical […]

Restricted airspace surrounding Australian airports just became a lot easier to access after drone safety app FlyFreely was verified to provide automated airspace authorisations. The Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) has verified the Australian startup to provide instantaneous controlled airspace authorisations as part of its automated airspace authorisation trial. Users will now be able […]

Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, today introduced new capabilities for high precision mapping missions and automated, end-to-end data workflows to make mapping more efficient, reliable, and powerful across industries. The updates to Auterion OS serve enterprises with diverse use cases that need component and payload flexibility, alongside […]

Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS), a leading provider of private wireless data, drone and automated data solutions through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Ondas Networks Inc. and American Robotics, Inc. (“American Robotics” or “AR”), announced that American Robotics has added seven additional sites of operation approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its automated BVLOS drone technology, the Scout […]

With its focus on industry-first collaborations for commercial uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), Inmarsat today expanded the Partner Network for its Velaris UAV connectivity solution with the addition of software company Dimetor, which facilitates Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations in cellular networks, and Bellwether Industries, an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) solutions provider for intra-city travel. The Partner Network […]

DJI is internally reassessing compliance requirements in various jurisdictions. Pending the current review, DJI will temporarily suspend all business activities in Russia and Ukraine. We are engaging with customers, partners and other stakeholders regarding the temporary suspension of business operations in the affected territories.

Alpha Unmanned Systems (AUS), the Madrid-based manufacturer of helicopter UAVs, ispleased to announce the incorporation of Joseph Menaker, co-founder and CEO of UAVFactory (now known as EDGE Autonomy https://edgeautonomy.io/), to Alpha´s Advisory Board. With over 30 years of high-tech industry experience, Joseph provides Alpha with deep managerial and industry knowledge. UAV Factory (EDGE Autonomy), the […]

Based on the company’s patented coaxial rotor technology, the new NX30 platform offers a better material delivery platform than conventional multirotor and fixed-wing UAVs. Massachusetts-based Ascent AeroSystems, the world’s leading manufacturer of compact, all-weather, high-performance coaxial unmanned aerial systems, today introduced a new vehicle platform designed specifically for material transport in real-world operating environments. “The […]

Animal Dynamics has a rich history of building innovative, bio-inspired autonomous systems. It first began with Skeeter, a flapping-wing micro-drone, which was designed to perform in complex high-wind environments. More recently it developed Raydrive, an underwater autonomy system inspired by the gliding motion of a manta ray. Raydrive is a fully autonomous, underwater vehicle that […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has integrated the Leonardo Seaspray 7500E V2 multi-mode radar onto an MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft and performed its first test flight on Apr. 14, 2021. The maritime-focused radar is also being fitted for the MQ-9B SeaGuardian® RPA. “The benefits of this Maritime Patrol Radar (MPR) in the complex littoral and maritime […]

Near Space Corporation (Tillamook UAS) and UAS Denmark Test Center enter cooperative agreement to allow their customers to easily transition their validation testing and demonstration flights between the EU and United States Meeting a growing demand for unmanned systems developers and OEMs to facilitate validation testing, certification, and demonstration flights between the EUand United States. […]

Over the last decade, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones”) have become a regular feature of American life. We use them for recreation, for research, and for commerce. But the proliferation of this new technology has also introduced new risks to public safety, privacy, and homeland security. Malicious actors have increasingly used UAS domestically to […]

Galaxy Unmanned System LLC Awarded AFWERX D2P2 SBIR to help usher in Advanced AirMobility (AAM). Galaxy Unmanned Systems and subcontractors Waterlines AeroDesign LLC,COMSovereign, Unmanned Experts, and the University of North Texas will be working together to understand existing AAM environments. Jason White, Managing Partner at Galaxy Unmanned Systems sums this project up by saying – […]

PETRONAS’ technology commercialisation arm, PETRONAS Technology Ventures Sdn Bhd (PTVSB) has entered into a strategic collaboration with Aerodyne Oil and Gas Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Aerodyne Group, to explore opportunities for deployment and commercialisation of drone-based solutions. The collaboration marks another significant step forward in PETRONAS’ sustainability journey. It is set to elevate the […]

SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, received a 2022 Edison Award in the Aerospace and Robotics: Flight Technologies category for its SkyGrid Flight Control™ application – an end-to-end airspace management system built on AI and blockchain. This is the second year in a row SkyGrid’s solutions have been recognized on the Edison Awards list. “As a […]

At NAB Show 2022, April 24-27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sony Electronics is proudly unveiling and showcasing a broad range of products and services, to empower broadcast, to cinematic and live event content creation. These innovations align with leading industry trends in the Imaging, Internet Protocol (IP), Cloud and Visualization realm. Sony will be exhibiting in booth […]

AVSS has successfully completed the $1.1M contract that was rewarded in January 2022with delivery and final demonstration completed in Ear Falls, Ontario with TransportCanada, Indigenous Services Canada, and 3 Points in Space Media in March 2022. (New Brunswick, Canada) – AVSS, a Canadian aerospace manufacturer that developsParachute Recovery Systems (PRS), Flight Termination Systems (FTS), and PrecisionPayload […]

In January, Elroy Air welcomed new customers and partners to our family, we unveiled our updated Chaparral C1 vehicle, and I gave an invited talk about our company trajectory at the 2022 Transformative Vertical Flight Conference in San Jose. Then in February, Chaparral was featured as the cover story of Aviation Week. This is like an athlete making the cover of […]

Today the National Health Institute (INS), the Health Sector of Inhambane, VillageReach and Swoop Aero, started the second phase of the study for the use of drones to transport laboratory samples for infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, tuberculosis, HIV, and medical products. This study, called Drones for Health Phase 2, will last six months and […]

Malek Murison Picture a scene that’s synonymous with the climate crisis. Maybe your mind jumped to the Amazon rainforest or the polar ice caps, where deforestation and rapid melting have long been rallying points for conservation efforts. But the latest research suggests it’s oceans that are key to tempering climate change. In fact, a microorganism […]

Aergility Corporation announced today that it will be unveiling its full-scale ATLIS hybrid cargo VTOL UAV prototype on April 25th. As a result of years of development and testing, the innovative drone uses the company’s patented Managed Autorotation technology to carry 400-500 pounds of cargo straight to the point-of-need 300 to 600 miles away. The UAV […]

Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho), one of Japan’s general trading companies and a member of the Toyota Group, and Zipline, the global leader in instant logistics, today launched automated, on-demand deliveries of medical supplies across Japan’s Gotō Islands. Under this partnership, Toyota Tsusho is using Zipline’s instant logistics system to make routine, commercial long-distance drone deliveries in […]

Earlier this year, Event 38 Unmanned Systems successfully flew a drone fitted with a 3D-printed antenna at Kent State University. The project, backed by the Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN), was a collaboration between Event 38, Kent State University, Youngstown State University, and Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI), who led the project. Event 38 consulted with […]

By Gordon Feller With the proliferation of drones has come a whole new class of security threats to both civilian and military systems. In response to these challenges, demand for counter-drone technology has spiked. Detecting and/or disabling unmanned aerial systems (UASs) has become a new task for defense organizations. Every NATO government, and every adversary, […]

L&T Technology Services Limited (BSE: 540115, NSE: LTTS), a global leading pure-play engineering services company, has garnered a multi-year $100 million+ electric air mobility deal from Jaunt Air Mobility (Jaunt). As part of the contract, LTTS will open an Engineering and R&D Centre in Québec Province for the next-gen electric aircraft manufacturer to provide engineering […]

Teledyne FLIR successfully completed an installation of a long-range drone detection system for a critical infrastructure site in Sweden. A smart slew-to-cue system, combining radar, thermal imaging and visual sensors, makes sure no unmanned aircraft system goes undetected. As drones are becoming commercially available to a wider audience, effective drone detection and monitoring has become […]

Drones run AI on the edge and use machine learning to autonomously conduct infrastructure inspections and collision avoidance MOORPARK, Calif. and ZURICH — April 20, 2022 — Auterion, the company building an open and software-defined future for enterprise drone fleets, is excited today to welcome Spleenlab to the growing Auterion ecosystem. Spleenlab’s VISIONAIRY® technology delivers AI-based safe […]

DRONAMICS, the world’s leading middle-mile cargo drone developer and operator, has achieved CarbonNeutral® company certification. The certification recognizes that the company has achieved carbon neutrality in accordance with The CarbonNeutral Protocol global standard. As a fast-growing technology company on the path to net-zero, DRONAMICS is looking to change the status quo in the cargo mobility sector – […]

95% of agencies surveyed cite “negative impact” from recent actions taken to create Florida Approved Drone Manufacturers List MIAMI – April 20, 2022 – New research conducted by the Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), the leading 501(c)3 non-profit organization supporting the use of drones for public safety and disaster response and home to the DRONERESPONDERS program, has found […]

Addressing the need for large-scale, safe uncrewed aviation, Iris Automation announces the commercial availability of Casia G, a ground-based version of its detect and avoid (DAA) surveillance solution. Using the same patented AI and computer vision technology as Iris Automation’s onboard solutions, it provides a full optical, 360°-degree field of regard designed to detect, alert and enable operators to […]

Archer Aviation Inc. (NYSE: ACHR) today announced that Adam Goldstein has been named sole CEO, as the company prepares for its next phase of growth in the fast-developing urban air mobility market. Brett Adcock, Archer’s co-founder and former co-CEO, will remain on the Company’s Board of Directors. The Company took this step, which it believes […]

Micro weather data and analytics firm TruWeather Solutions has joined forces with safety avionics pioneer Iris Automation to integrate TruWeather’s micro weather services and cost-effective weather sensors into Iris Automation’s Casia G ground-based surveillance system (GBSS). This meshed network will provide real-time integrated communications, collision avoidance and micro-weather data to operators. Micro weather or low-altitude local atmospheric conditions can […]

• Donation is independent of other AeroVironment systems already being provided to Ukraine by the United States Government • Donated Quantix Recon unmanned aircraft systems will ship this week with more to follow • Operational training services for donated systems will also be provided at no cost AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain […]

This drone interceptor is designed to catch light UAVs. High power-to-weight ratio is a competitive advantage of this concept. It allows the drone to fly fast. Before an attack, the target can be flown around for identification. Drone rotors are used to spread the net. High-energy rotors allow the use of a larger net. At […]

Swoop Aero has partnered with ChristchurchNZ’s Urban Development team to establish a network including the Aviary, Swoop Aero’s autonomous docking station for a fleet of drones. The Aviary combines landing infrastructure, charging technology, payload exchange, and a user interface in an architecturally-designed structure to seamlessly scale integrated drone logistics and make access to the skies […]

Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces today the launch of AsteRx-U3, which is the successor of the popular AsteRx-U multi-frequency GNSS receiver for construction, mining and other machine control applications. This new product combines Septentrio’s latest triple-band precise positioning GNSS core with extended wireless communication features including Wi-Fi, UHF and 4G LTE. […]

Flyby Guys & Spectre Solutions announce the signing of a strategic agreement with theobjective to support Spectre Solutions’ growth in the Middle East and Africa region. SpectreSolutions is an innovative Drone Design and Manufacturing Company, specializing incutting-edge VTOL UAVs. It’s lead product, the Spectre-1 drone, is challenging conventionalboundaries and opening new opportunities with regards to […]

UnmannedPower has been retained to identify a Director of Maintenance to develop and deliver sophisticated maintenance and support services to millions of commercial drones and next-gen aircraft. ou Experience in manned – and ideally unmanned aviation maintenance A&P with experience managing teams, operations, and budgets in a repair station or Part 135 shop Self-starting entrepreneur […]

Precision agriculture and environmental research can expect a significant boost in accuracy, efficiency and cost-effectiveness with Wingtra’s new MicaSense RedEdge Panchromatic (RE-P) payload. Capturing with the same five bands as the time-tested RedEdge-MX, the RE-P introduces a panchromatic sensor for enhanced resolution, life-like detail and empowering RGB output possibilities. Specifically, RE-P’s pan-sharpened resolution is double […]

Rising Aviation High School will host a Ribbon Cutting and Open House at their Addison campus on Thursday, April 21st, 2022, from 11AM-2PM. A first of its kind, aviation and aerospace centric high school in North Texas, Rising Aviation’s mission is to educate the next generation of aviation and aerospace professionals in a real-world environment right on the tarmac. The innovative […]

The international ResponDrone project will hold its concluding conference on April 26–28, 2022 in Porto, Portugal in which it will summarize the work done over the last three years to develop and apply a fleet of drones in emergency situations, providing critical information and communication services to first responders. The conference will include hands-on demos of the different components […]

On April 11, 2022, our own Kenji Sugahara was awarded the first Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) FPV 107 waiver in the United States (to our knowledge) that does not require a visual observer. While the process was not complicated, Kenji benefited from understanding the risk assessment processes within the FAA as well as their affinity […]

Nexus Nine are a UK-Based company that, for the past five years, has specialised in testing Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) and Counter-UAS (C-UAS) technologies. This testing has been for both Government and Industry bodies and has included the full spectrum of C-UAS Detect, Track, and Identify (DTI) techniques, as well as an end to end […]

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Skunk Works® demonstrated the expanded endurance capabilities of a specially configured Lockheed Martin Stalker VXE unmanned aerial system (UAS) through a world record endurance flight on Feb. 18, 2022, at the Santa Margarita Ranch in California. The flight establishes a new record in the Group 2 (5 to <25-kilogram) category with a […]

SPH Engineering is a globally recognized provider of UgCS – UAV mission planning and flight control software solution. This constantly evolving software is used by drone pilots and professional surveyors worldwide – particularly in the areas of environmental, archeological, engineering, mining, agricultural and biological surveys. In fact, one aspect – UgCS educational program – aims to […]

Skyports, established in 2017, is the leading owner and operator of vertiports to enable electric air taxi operations in a number of cities around the world. Skyports designed and built the world’s first passenger vertiport prototype in Singapore in 2019 and, in collaboration with Volocopter, conducted the first-ever urban flight trials in Marina Bay. Skyports […]

Freefly Systems Inc. an American corporation that designs and manufactures the world’s toughest drones, today announced that the Freefly Systems Alta X unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been approved as a trusted drone platform after successfully completing the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Blue sUAS 2.0 testing, evaluation, and demonstration programs. […]

Blighter Surveillance Systems (‘Blighter’, www.blighter.com) the British designer and manufacturer of electronic-scanning radars and surveillance solutions, has announced the launch of the A422 Deployable Radar System (https://www.blighter.com/a422). The A422 is a ground-based military radar for drone detection and wide area perimeter surveillance, and the new configuration allows it to be deployed rapidly in remote and inaccessible areas. […]

Swoop Aero has won the 2022 A/AA Excellence in Innovation Award. The Award has been presented to Swoop Aero for the launch of the company’s latest and most advanced aircraft, the KiteTM. Kite TM brings together the best learnings of unparalleled operational experience and real-world learning, it is Swoop Aero’s next-generation urban aircraft, built for […]

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has taken delivery of three MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and two Mobile Ground Control Stations from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). The RNLAF will begin operating the MQ-9s later this month out of Curacao to provide long-range, persistent surveillance to support missions protecting the Netherland’s national interests. […]