Airbus is leading a new programme, the Air Mobility Initiative, to bring Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to Bavaria as a blueprint for inter-city transportation in
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Social media posts report “US UTM company Skyward to cease operations in June”
Social media reports say US UTM company Skyward, part of the Verizon group, will cease operations in June 2022. According to the reports, customers have
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Australia’s FlyFreely “to provide drone flight authorisations in controlled airport airspace”
Australia’s Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) has verified Australian startup FlyFreely to provide instantaneous controlled airspace authorisations as part of its automated airspace authorisation
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Percepto “to launch hundreds of autonomous drone-in-a-box FPL inspection units”
Percepto has announced it will deploy autonomous drones to monitor Florida Power & Light’s substations and power distribution grids across the state. “The first electric
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US Government to list “authorised detection systems” as part of national C-UAS plan
The US government has released the first “whole-of-government” plan to address UAS threats in the Homeland. “Through the Domestic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems National Action Plan,
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A lesson from Ukraine: counter UAS technology is still one step behind the threat
The new Unmanned Airspace annual review of the counter-UAS (C-UAS) industry shows that although C-UAS technology and operational procedures are improving they still cannot quite
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DroneSec launches StolenDroneInfo to help security agencies track rogue drones
DroneSec has launched a new database of stolen drones which allows security agencies to track global markets for rogue drones and operators. According to Arison
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A new way to capture rogue drones: detachable drone rotors attached to a net
Start-up LAMAT has developed a drone interceptor with detachable rotors attached to a net which capture the rogue drone. According to a company press release:
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TruWeather and Iris Automation link to integrate micro weather sensors in Casia G surveillance system
Micro weather data and analytics firm TruWeather Solutions has joined forces with avionics company Iris Automation to integrate TruWeather’s micro weather services sensors into Iris
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Pierce Aerospace and Vigilant Aerospace link to provide remote ID to FlightHorizon service
Pierce Aerospace has announced a partnership with Vigilant Aerospace Systems to integrate Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal Remote ID technologies into Vigilant’s FlightHorizon airspace management and
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