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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Category: Urban air mobility
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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Japan’s Wakkanai city region tests drone operations at an operational aerodrome
Japanese partners BIRD INITIATIVE, All Nippon Airways, ANRA Technologies, Ein Holdings, NEC and the Hokkaido Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Ministry of
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Skyports partners with MassDOT to land its drone services in Massachusetts, US
Drone services provider Skyports has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) Aeronautics Division to demonstrate how its drone services could link communities across
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Eurocae launches call for participation in WG-105 SG-2 to examine cellular networks for safe UAS operations
European standards agency Eurocae has launched a call for participation to inform concerned stakeholders about an ongoing activity in WG-105 SG-2 on Command, Control, Communication,
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Swiss drone operator Dpendent becomes new member of Drone Logistics Ecosystem
Swiss drone operator Dpedndent has announced its participation as a new member to the Drone Logistics Ecosystem. Dpendent’s engineering team has developed an automated robotic
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