NASA is teaming up with small business owners to address safety issues surrounding autonomous drone flights. The agency has launched Safeguard with Autonomous Navigation Demonstration, a competition to examine aerial hazards such as UAV flights outside of approved airspace, unsafe drone flights near people and property and critical system failure. “NASA is working to … [Read more...] about NASA Competition Soars to Tackle Drone Safety Issues
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NASA’s Dragonfly: the Drone that May Change What We Know About Life in the Universe (Check Out This Video!)
The drone industry is constantly achieving new firsts and new missions - and the Dragonfly may represent a whole new measure for what drones can achieve. Previous longest missions will be dwarfed by the 8 years it will take for Dragonfly to reach its destination. And as far as flight beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), the Dragonfly isn't even close. NASA has announced that … [Read more...] about NASA’s Dragonfly: the Drone that May Change What We Know About Life in the Universe (Check Out This Video!)
Here are the 5 Winners of the 2019 AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award
The five winners of the second annual XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award have been announced at AUVSI XPONENTIAL. The award was once again sponsored by DJI. More of our AUVSI Coverage: AUVSI Xponential Kick Off Keynotes FlytBase Shows Remote Drone Operations Software with BVLOS capability at AUVSI FAA Acting Deputy Administrator Carl Burleson: Our Job is to … [Read more...] about Here are the 5 Winners of the 2019 AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award
RelmaTech Joins NASA’s Drone UTM Project in Nevada
British drone firm RelmaTech will be taking part in a NASA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) program in Nevada to test drone deployment over urban areas. According to a company press release, the company was invited by both NASA and the state of Nevada to conduct “UTM TCL4” testing as well as further testing for Nevada’s UTM Pilot Program. The NASA … [Read more...] about RelmaTech Joins NASA’s Drone UTM Project in Nevada
Drone Delivery, Urban Air Mobility: NASA is Moving Ahead
NASA drone projects and their acronyms are starting to look like a language of their own - but the agency is moving forward steadily on projects to integrate drones into the airspace for everything from drone taxis to delivery drones. Today, NASA and California-based NextNav annouced that NASA will use NextNav's Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) as part of those projects. … [Read more...] about Drone Delivery, Urban Air Mobility: NASA is Moving Ahead
