By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Billions of dollars have been spent by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and governments to develop a first generation of passenger-carrying eVTOL
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Category: UAS traffic management news
Project to develop 5G U-space services in Denmark’s lower airspace receives DKK14 million government funding
Denmark’s Innovation Fund is supporting the launch of the Grand Solutions project GENIUS which aims to develop a 5G network for the low airspace. The
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Germany funds U-space test environment in Port of Hamburg and surrounding airspace
A EUR492,000 grant issued by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is funding the establishment of Germany’s first U-Space test environment operated by
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Spain’s Hera Drone Hub adds Altitude Angel GuardianUTM Enterprise platform to the urban city test environment
The Hera Drone Hub urban test centre in Zaragoza, Spain, has selected the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) platform GuardianUTM supplied by Altitude Angel. With the
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Volocopter demonstrates first urban air mobility flight during Paris Air Forum
Volocopter is conducting its first Volocity flight in Paris during the Paris Air Forum on 21 June 2021, the start of a series of tests
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Airwayz Drones partners with Digiland to provide third party U-space services
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) company Airwayz Drones has formed a strategic partnership with financing and operations company Digiland to provide ready-to-deploy fleet management solutions and
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Rome airport authority and air traffic agency sign letter of intent to advance air mobility
Italy’s sole authority for technical regulation, certification, supervision and control in the civil aviation sector, ENAC, has signed a letter of intent with ENAV-Aeroporti di
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Transport Canada approves Volatus BVLOS operations in six locations
Canadian regulator Transport Canada has granted a Special Flight Operating Certificate (SFOC) to drone operator Volatus to beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations in
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New European coalition aims to improve urban air mobility by establishing a regional UAM network, invites participants
A coalition between two EU-funded projects AiRMOUR and AURORA aims to improve the current urban airspace transport system in European cities through a collaborative network
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UK CAA to redefine lower airspace architecture to incorporate UTM, BVLOS and DAA procedures
By Jenny Beechener “Development of a vision and a roadmap for lower airspace” has been added to the substantial review of the UK’s Airspace Modernisation
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