On 12 December 2017 President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act which includes a regulation that requires drone owners to register their drones
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Category: UAS traffic management news
“UTM start-ups have attracted USD371 million in financing” – McKinsey
Thirty-five UTM start-ups have received USD371 million in funding in the past few years, according to a new report “Commercial drones are here: The future
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AirMap launches into New Zealand with Airways NZ
AirMap has joined forces with Airways New Zealand to bring digital airspace authorization to New Zealand’s drone community. Drone operators can now use AirMap’s iOS and Android
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NTT DATA’s airpalette UTM system allows remote control of multiple drones
NTT DATA Corporation has launched a drone traffic management software package “airpalette® UTM” (www.airpalette.net/utm) to drone operators and local governments. The software package enables simultaneous remote control
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Transport Canada authorises Pioneer Aerial to fly night-time drone operations
Global UAV Technologies Ltd has announced its survey division, Pioneer Aerial Surveys has received authorization from Transport Canada to conduct night UAV operations in every
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Drone trials to use 4.5G mobile telecoms network in Singapore
The Straits Times has reported Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and telecommunications company M1 are using the M1’s 4.5G heterogeneous network (HetNet) to fly drones, instead
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Rakuten AirMap brings LAANC technologies to Chiba City, Japan
Rakuten AirMap has announced the launch of the AirMap platform in Japan, including a solution for airspace management and authorization. AirMap’s Airspace Management Dashboard, developer
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NLR and partners to trial BVLOS flights from Groningen Airport Elde
Six representatives of government, business and knowledge institutions – including NLR – signed an agreement at Groningen Airport Eelde last week to perform beyond visual
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Kittyhawk launches drone flight pre-sets for FAA compliance
Kittyhawk (https://blog.kittyhawk.io/kittyhawk-launches-intelligent-flight-profiles-to-enterprise-suite-of-drone-operations-solution-2b65519d3b) has announced the launch of its Flight Profiles function, a set of “common-sense” presets to help further reduce risk and empower drone operator
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Terra Drone and KDDI trial autonomous BVLOS mobile-telecom based operations
Terra Drone, a Japanese industrial drone service provider, and KDDI Corporation, a Japanese telecommunications operator have succeeded in a fully autonomous flight experiment of “Smart Drone”
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