Azur Drones, a French surveillance UAV operator, reports it has received the first and only DGAC approval for a fully-automated drone – Skeyetech system – which takes
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
Drone operators violating no-fly Superbowl zone “to be prosecuted”
US law enforcement officers are due to make a number of arrests over the next few days following the confiscation of at least six drones
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Echodyne detect-and-avoid airborne drone radar cleared for civil use
Echodyne reports it has received a commodity jurisdiction (CJ) determination from the US State Department for its EchoFlight radar. “The CJ determination classifies the EchoFlight radar
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Israel “announces draft drone registration rules”
The Center for the Study of the Drone, Bard College and Israeli news service Globes report that the Israel Civil Aviation Authority (ICAA) has published
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US Department of Defense awards DRS USD74.8 million counter-UAS contract
The US Department of Defense has announced it has awarded DRS Sustainment Systems Inc., St. Louis, Missouri a $74,864,274 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for rapid development, production,
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FAA extends deadline for UAS remote identification RFI
The FAA has extended the deadline for its request for information for UAS remote identification (https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uas-traffic-management-tenders/faa-announces-rfi-remote-identification-industry-partners/) from 4 February to 19 February. “The FAA is
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NUAIR Alliance tests impact of weather on drone performance
Windshape, a Switzerland based company, in partnership with the New York State UAS Test Site, TruWeather Solutions and the NUAIR Alliance, used industry-leading micro-weather stimulations
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Mobile phone network and multi-link drone tracking performance compared
Researchers from Smart Robotic Systems GmbH, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Berlin, have released a research paper into performance comparisons of two
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Finland’s UTM concept sees over-arching role for ANSPs
ANS Finland, Finland’s air navigation service provider, outlined its vision of a national UTM system at the second meeting of the U-Space Network of Demonstrators,
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EASA to publish high level U-space draft regulations by the end of the year
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) plans to have its first, draft high level regulations covering U-space operations published by the end of 2019, according
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