Eight months after halting drone deliveries of healthcare consignments, Swiss Post is set to resume operations at the end of January 2020, according to a
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Japan Airlines and Terra Drone to test delivery of emergency goods by drone in joint project with Yabu City
Japan Airlines (JAL) and Yabu City have agreed to verify the feasibility of using UAV technology to transport emergency goods to unpopulated areas in Japan
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US UTM company Airspace Link “raises USD4 million from investor swarm”
Techcrunch reports that Detroit-based UTM company and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) service-provider Airspace Link “has just raised USD4
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Belgian ANSP skeyes creates national UTM company – plans future private partnerships
Belgian air navigation service provider (ANSP) skeyes has created a subsidiary Skeydrone in which it will pool all its drone-related activities, including UAS traffic management services.
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EASA leads European research into vulnerability of manned aircraft to drone strikes and C-UAS
By Jenny Beechener The European Union (EU) has tasked European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) with the contracting and technical management of research into the vulnerability
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Syniverse and AiRXOS link to provide secure UTM communications network
Technology innovators Syniverse and AiRXOS, a wholly owned subsidiary of GE Aviation, today announced they are working together to provide a communications infrastructure that manages
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Sri Lanka lifts drone ban and plans new regulations
Associated Press reports that Sri Lankan authorities have lifted a ban on drones that was imposed after the Easter Sunday attacks that left 263 people
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FAA chooses “cohort” of eight companies to pioneer remote identification implementation
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a “cohort” of eight companies to work out the implementation details of drone operations’ remote identification (RID) rules
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Perspecta Labs demonstrates long-distance ground to air LTE data communications for manned and unmanned systems
The applied research arm of Perspecta successfully demonstrated long-distance, high-bandwidth data streaming between a test aircraft and a fourth generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) ground
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AUVSI invites responses to measure FAA UAS waiver experience
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) has tasked the independent organisations of Catalyst-Go and the Eno Center for Transportation with a research project
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