The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation branch (AAIB) has published its January 2020 bulletin which contains details of the first investigations into Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) that have
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Category: UAS traffic management news
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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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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NASA seeks to licence emergency-landing, tracking-without-GPS and propeller-quietening technologies
NASA in the USA is promoting a range of technology developments which it says will unlock new capabilities of drones in commercial operations by adding
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Pierce and DRONEDEK partner to progress commercial drone delivery services
US companies Pierce Aerospace and DRONEDEK LLC have announced a partnership to advance commercial drone delivery, by linking Pierce Aerospace’s Remote Identification expertise and technologies
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BVLOS waiver allows Censys and SEI to inspect power lines
Censys Technologies and partner Soaring Eagle Imaging (SEI) successfully carried out beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) inspection of power lines in Louisiana in the
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