A joint effort by Latvian Mobile Telephone (LMT), SPH Engineering and DPD Latvija completed a beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight using the mobile
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Category: UAS traffic management news
Israel to test compatibility of commercial drone delivery operations within an existing UTM/ATM system
Between March 21 and April 1 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Transport will conduct trials of drone delivery companies to understand how these might work
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Skyward and UPS announce plans to test 5G ultra wideband, launch connected drone delivery at CES 2021
Skyward, a Verizon company, and UPS Flight Forward have announced collaborative efforts to deliver retail products with drones connected to Verizon 4G LTE, as well
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EUROCAE seeks participants to develop standards for testing UAS ground segment equipment
European standards agency Eurocae has issued a call for participants to WG-14 to work on “recommended practices for testing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) ground
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Scottish drone port receives GBP5.6 million government grant to establish offshore trial airspace
The UK and Scottish governments announced GBP5.6 million investment in mid-December to support development of Scotland’s first trial drone airspace, called Montrose Drone Port. The
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“AirXOS to stop operations in February” – sUAS News
sUAS News reports that GE’s UTM company AirXOS has announced it will cease operations from the start of February. According to a statement from Mark
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Pentagon releases new strategy for countering small unmanned aerial systems
US Department of Defense (DoD) has released a new document, the Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy describing its strategy for small UAS. Introducing the new
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Huawei patents AI-based drone control system in China
Huawei Central reports that the company has been given a patent in China for a drone control system based on artificial intelligence. According to the
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NASA seeks drone cargo partners to help research NAS integration
NASA’s ATM-X Project provides research findings to enable the development of requirements, procedures, and technologies to enable the integration of new vehicles – Pathfinding for
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Japanese researchers report 95% success rate in Bluetooth 5.0 remote drone ID comms trials
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) government agency reports it has recorded a 95% success rate in evaluating Bluetooth 5.0 for remote
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