NASA has finished a successful demonstrations of its unmanned aerial systems traffic management (UTM) system, GCN's Mark Pomerleau reports. An air traffic control system for drones, NASA’s UTM has been in development with PrecisionHawk and other industry partners. While tests of the system were reported earlier in the year, a first level implementation may be close for … [Read more...] about NASA’s Drone Traffic Management “Ready to be Deployed”
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Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around
from New York Times The tech industry’s enthusiasm for building small delivery drones may be getting ahead of figuring out what to do with them. On Thursday, with much fanfare, Google revealed Project Wing, an experimental program out of the company’s long-term projects division, called Google X. In a video, Google showed a buzzing aircraft — half plane, half helicopter — … [Read more...] about Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around
Air Traffic Control for Drones
from The Blaze With so many instances of amateur or commercial unmanned aerial vehicles causing concern for traditional airplanes, the government is in the process of creating an air traffic control system specifically for drones. While the Federal Aviation Administration is working on regulations to govern the use of government, commercial and private drone use in the … [Read more...] about Air Traffic Control for Drones
How NASA is Building a Highway in the Sky
When Jeff Bezos appeared on 60 Minutes and showed the world the Amazon Prime Air drone delivery system, a lot of skeptics called it a publicity stunt and said such technology was a very long way off, if it ever materialized at all. It seemed like science fiction. But when it became clear Bezos was serious, the first questions most people had were "what is going to … [Read more...] about How NASA is Building a Highway in the Sky
