Researchers at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently captured imagery of supersonic shockwaves streaming from two research aircraft using a newly developed high-tech schlieren imaging system. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Get $9M TERN Project Award
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Technologies have been hired for a $9 million effort to conceptualize an armed UAS that will launch from a small ship to strike as far as 900 nautical miles away, according to the Pentagon. A test launch is slated for 2017. Continue reading
Nebraska University Gets Department of Agriculture Grant for Remote Water Testing UAS
When natural disaster next strikes, a UAS built by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers may fly in to check on the water supply where people cannot.A project underway at the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems Lab aims to build unmanned aircraft systems that can fly over difficult-to-reach bodies of water and collect samples for analysis. Continue reading
UAV-g September 4 – 6, 2013 at Rostock University, Germany
UAV-g 2013 is a follow up conference of the very successful UAV-g 2011 at ETH Zurich. The conference is organised with the focus on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g). Continue reading
UAS Tag and Track Quarry Using Nanoparticle Sprays
The US Air Force is funding work to let UAS tag suspects or cars with a spray that gives them a distinct spectral signature, making them easy to track. Continue reading
US Navy Turns to UAS for Help with Radar and Communications
Scientists recently launched unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from a research vessel in a significant experiment that could help boost the Navy’s radar and communications performance at sea.
Universities Prepare for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Demand
A growing number of universities have launched or are considering UAS degree programmes, including Arizona State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, and Embry-Riddle, as well as the University of North Dakota and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).
U.S. Army Research Laboratory DEvelops ‘Long-Lived Power’
“Long-Lived Power” sounds like it could be an energy revolution, a revolutionary of sorts within the family of far-reaching energy solutions for the battlefield — because it uses radioisotopes. Continue reading