Special report European commercial drone operators planning to extend their businesses into beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and other more complex operations will have
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Category: UAS traffic management news
Up to 110,000 passengers impacted by drone sightings over London Gatwick airport
London’s Gatwick airport was brought to a standstill on 19 and 20 December following the sightings of drones flying over the airfield in what appears
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NASA shows how UTM companies could collaborate to support urban drone flights
NASA has published a new report as part of its UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Project, outlining its latest thinking on a UTM architecture for commercial
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Boeing is flight trialing airborne radar for detect-and-avoid UAS applications
Boeing recently conducted a flight experiment to test the concept of expanding radar capabilities to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the headquarters of Aurora Flight
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Vodafone “makes UK’s first 4G mobile network drone delivery”
Mobile phone network provider Vodafone has completed the UK’s first ever drone delivery over a mobile network, says the company. “Traditional drones are flown using
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NUAIR partners meet to develop UTM roadmap for BVLOS operations
The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR) hosted its first official unmanned traffic management (UTM) kick off meeting with partners in Syracuse on December
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Russia’s Mikran “is developing counter-sUAS drone”
Russia’s TASS news agency reports that the country’s Mikran company has developed the Carnivora, a counter-small UAS (sUAS) drone. The Carnivora has been developed to
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European researchers launch Safedrone integrated airspace programme
The European Safedrone project, which will carry out one of the largest European flight demonstrations of drones and conventional aircraft sharing airspace at very low
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Sky-Drones integrates Altitude Angel UTM software in its drone flight control system
Sky-Drones – a UAV flight control system solutions provider – has partnered with Altitude Angel as a strategic partner to help integrate UAS operations into
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FAA opens next round of LAANC service supplier approval procedures on 7 January 2019
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will open its next round of approving UTM suppliers for Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) services on 7 January
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