Swoop Aero has obtained beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) approval from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) for medical logistics operations in Queensland. Swoop
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Category: Urban air mobility
Eurocontrol undertakes airspace assessment as part of Israel’s national drone initiative
Eurocontrol worked closely with the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel to undertake an airspace assessment to support the integration of drones into airspace. In addition
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Aerit, ICAx, and RISE team up for drone delivery pilot in Norway’s Norrtälje municipality archipelago
Drone operator Aerit has announced it will pilot drone delivery services to the Swedish archipelago in collaboration with ICAx, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and Norrtälje municipality. The announcement follows selection of the project for
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Switzerland updates framework to enable network remote identification of drone operations
Members of Swiss U-Space Implementation (SUSI) have finalised the Swiss Remote ID Master Agreement that is needed to formalise the proper functioning of the network
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Europe’s Flying Forward 2020 project marks first anniversary with six deliverables
The three-year Horizon 2020 funded project, Flying Forward 2020, launched in December 2020, has marked its first anniversary with a list of six deliverables: Next
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DroneUp acquires AirMap, creates airspace management and drone market ecosystem
Drone flight services company DroneUp has announced its acquisition of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) company AirMap. AirMap UTM services support as many as 100,000 global
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Zipline adds sixth country to healthcare service network with Ivory Coast partnership
Drone operator Zipline has partnered with the Ivory Coast Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage to provide delivery of medical supplies. As
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“BVLOS operations will become more regular” says Drone Industry Insights report
Drone flights beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) remain limited due to regulation says a recent report by Drone Industry Insights in a re-visit of the topic and examination
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Successful U-space trial completed in Germany’s first sandbox in Hamburg, tests U-space services
The U-space sandbox in Hamburg has demonstrated that the European U-space concept works in practice this real-world laboratory. The focus of the trials was on
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Flight Corp launches new service to allow ANSPs to create digital twins of urban airspace
The Flight Corp has announced a teaming arrangement with Unity, which builds and operates interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) environments, to create digital airspace twins to
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