Spanish air navigation service provider ENAIRE has managed 255 drone flights so far in 2019, of which 192 took place in uncontrolled airspace, while the
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Author: Jenny Beechener
NASA field tests multiple drone flights in the same airspace
NASA field tested interactions between concurrent drone operations using various Unmanned Service Suppliers (USS) within a shared airspace volume under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
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GOF U-space demonstrates drone flight plan modification during flight
Participants in the Gulf of Finland U-space (GOF USPACE) programme dynamically modified a drone flight plan in-flight within a UTM system during an exercise simulating
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FAA waiver for BVLOS flights in Kansas
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operation without visual observers or ground-based radar in the Kansas Unmanned Aircraft
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FAA approves pilot drone food delivery in North Carolina
The Federal Aviation Administration gave approval for partners in the North Carolina Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) to begin food deliveries by
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Current estimates of drone injury risk are “too conservative”, reports latest ASSURE research
Long-standing assumptions about the risk to life from drones colliding with people on the ground have been “overly conservative” according to the latest study released by
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NATO tests passive and active tracking of small UAVs in urban environments
Electro-optical sensors were among tracking devices used during six days of testing at France’s Centre d’entrainement aux actions en zone urbaine (Cenzub) as part of
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US Air Force Research Laboratory tests high power microwave technology to bring down drones
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is testing high-power microwave technology in collaboration with US manufacturers to provide deployable Counter-UAS systems, according to US
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Terra Drone demonstrates Unifly UTM solution in Indonesia
Safe integration of drones into Indonesian airspace was the purpose of a demonstration by Terra Drone Indonesia at the Jakarta Air Traffic Services Center (JATSC)
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SESAR U-space CLASS project reports successful results in multi-drone tracking trials
Project managers of the CLear Air Situation for uaS (CLASS) project – one of a dozen U-space projects launched by SESAR Joint Undertaking in 2018
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