Following two years of secretive development, a young Chinese startup focusing in drones unveiled its Hover Camera. Different from many other drones, the Hover Camera can track and film people and objects on sight with its 4K videos and photos via a 13-megapixel camera. Continue reading
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Alta Devices 31.6% Solar Energy Efficiency Certified
Solar efficiency is measured and certified by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). According to NREL’s testing, Alta Device’s new dual-junction solar cell is the world’s most efficient 1-sun cell at 31.6% efficiency. This is the seventh overall solar efficiency record that Alta Device has set since 2010. Continue reading
uAvionix DJI Stanford Partner in Safe Aircraft Separation
Eric Mueller works at the NASA Ames Research Center and is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. He co-authored a paper with his professor, Mykel Kochenderfer at Stanford, titled “Multi-rotor Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.” The paper describes how speed changes by agile multi-copters and small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) can be used in addition to horizontal and vertical maneuvers to maintain safe operating distances between aircraft. Continue reading
Textron Completes Hybrid Quadrotor Integration on Aerosonde
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems has announced the successful demonstration of the Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) enabled with Hybrid Quadrotor technology – allowing the system to take-off and land vertically to significantly increase mission flexibility.
NOAA Lets Hurricanes Destroy UAS That Gather Data
While scientists have gotten a lot better at estimating the strength of a hurricane before it hits land, they still don’t fully understand how hurricanes form. While satellite measurements can give meteorologists a pretty good picture of the atmospheric temperature and precipitation within a hurricane, sometimes the resolution is still “too coarse” to help researchers understand how storms form and mature, says Robbie Hood, the director of NOAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program.
Robonic Delivers 4th Gen Launcher to Lockheed Martin
Robonic Ltd Oy of Finland (a subsidiary of Sagem – Safran) has delivered its fourth generation OHTO pneumatic launcher to Lockheed Martin, broadening Robonic’s portfolio of highly efficient pneumatic zero-point launchers for tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as well as aerial targets.
Korean Manufacturers Deliver First Global Hawk Components
The partnership between Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Korean defense industry achieved another milestone in April with the completion of the first two component orders on the Republic of Korea Global Hawk Program.
Belgium Adopts Drone Legislation
On 25 April 2016, the Royal Decree of 10 April 2016 “concerning the use of remote controlled aircrafts in the Belgian airspace” entered into force. This new legislation regulates both the private and professional use of “unmanned aircraft systems”. Continue reading