Why a properly authorised and digitally coordinated flight may still be exposed to an aircraft that never appears on the operator’s screen writes Manuel Ignacio
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What US commercial BVLOS multispectral missions reveal about drone scalability
By Patrick Maple Beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations have shifted from waiver-dependent exception to a defined regulatory pathway faster than most of
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UTM rises into space – and ANSPs will have a role
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes In March this year UAS traffic management (UTM) company Skypuzzler announced that it had been granted a European Space Agency (ESA) SPARK
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SORA 2.5 and cross-border liability – the legal risks operators are ignoring
Why technical compliance may become your strongest evidence of due diligence before a foreign court By Jose Ramirez, PhD, MBA, Legal Counsel In the boardroom
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U-space Light: simplifying regulation without solving governance issues?
The European Commission and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) plan to introduce a “U-space Light” version of the current U-space regulation, with consultations due
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Why medical drone delivery must integrate into existing air mobility networks
Ben Spiske, Director of Advanced Air Mobility and Infrastructure, www.aerion-x.com. The medical drone industry has spent the last several years proving something important: the technology
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Russia’s mass drone/missile attacks now aim at psychological, rather than physical, damage
By Bohdan Tierokhin, defence journalist Russia’s 14 May and 2 June attack looked, at first glance, like the kind of mass strike modern states fear:
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Airspace World 2026 – U-space reality check: the sobering lessons of San Salvo
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The only fully-certified U-space airspace currently operating in the European Union is San Salvo in Italy, which launched in January 1, 2026. So
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When a drone fails in U-space: who pays?
By Dr Jose Ramirez The promise of U-space is elegantly simple: a digital ecosystem capable of managing drone traffic safely, efficiently, and at scale. The
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Europe’s drone industry challenges and innovations – podcast report from Xponential Europe 2026
There are five main obstacles to extending civil drone use cases in Europe: regulation, resistance from sectors, uncertainty over how to best use drones, budgets
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