Understanding the present demand for a range of applications and diversities, Eqquera Inc., innovated and is researching and developing Unmanned Aircraft System capable of carrying various payloads and engaging in multiple missions from protecting the environment to combat missions. The project is called “Mother Hen and Friendly Chicks”. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Aurora Flight Sciences Joins DARPA TERN Programme
A US military research programme that seeks to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system that can launch and recover from relatively small ships for long-term maritime surveillance has grown to five separate contractors. Continue reading
DARPA Programme Seeks to Develop a Reusable Hypersonic Unmanned Vehicle
DARPA’s new Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) programme seeks to lower satellite launch costs by developing a reusable hypersonic unmanned vehicle with costs, operation and reliability similar to traditional aircraft. XS-1 envisions that a reusable first stage would fly to hypersonic speeds at a suborbital altitude. Continue reading
DARPA Issues RFI on Advanced Autonomy and Collaborative Operations for Unmanned Air Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Tactical Technology Office has issued a Request for Information seeking ideas, methodologies and approaches solely for information and planning purposes. Continue reading
NASA Dryden Uses Schlieren Photography System to Study Supersonic Shockwaves
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
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