By: Tom Walker There have been dozens of articles written that break down the recently published “Public Inspection Document” version of the Remote ID (RID)
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Altitude Angel to provide lead UTM system to the African Drone Forum and Lake Kivu Challenge
Altitude Angel has been chosen as the lead and ‘umbrella’ UTM provider for the African Drone Forum and Lake Kivu Challenge 2020, which will take
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Regulator certifies skeye’s procedure for controllers to manage rogue drone incidents
Belgium’s air navigation service provider skeyes reports its procedure for dealing with rogue drone incidents has now been certified by the national regulator. “Air traffic
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Israel “will soon start trails of wide-ranging laser-based air defence system”
Numerous press reports say that Israel’s ministry of defence has developed a new laser-based air defence system called “Laser Sword” to be tested over coming
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WhiteFox, BlueForce and EXO Tactik launch year-long drone security trial at Montreal airport
WhiteFox is partnering with BlueForce and EXO Tactik to launch a year-long drone security trial at YUL Montréal-Trudeau International Airport. According to WhiteFox: “A drone
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EHang demonstrates autonomous air taxi flight in North Carolina
EHang on 8 January 2020 conducted its first-ever U.S. trial flight of its two-seat passenger autonomous air vehicle (AAV), the EHang 216, as part of the
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India to launch BVLOS flights in proof-of-concept trials
Numerous press reports say India will soon conduct beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) test flights of drone systems for the creation of last mile
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New York State plans drone indoor test centre for autonomy, command/control and communications
On 5 January 2020 New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a proposal to invest USD9 million to establish a small unmanned aerial system,
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Frequentis and Altitude Angel “win Avinor contract to supply Norway with a nationwide UTM system”
According to the UAS Norway website (https://www.uasnorway.no/uas-norway/) Frequentis of Austria with subcontractor Altitude Angel (UK) has won the contract issued by Norway’s air navigation service
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Drone registration and marking system goes live in Singapore
Unmanned aircraft registration commenced in Singapore on 2 January 2020. According to a statement from the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore: “Any unmanned aircraft (UA)
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