TeAx Technology has unveiled its latest product: ThermalCapture Smart+, an add-on designed for dual camera (EOIR system) ThermalCapture Fusion Zoom, which provides a computing processing power unit. Continue reading
Category Archives: Electronic Sub-Systems
Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet
Raytheon has received a potential $25.9 million contract to modify the Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite and retrofit the Enhanced Electro-Optical Receiver Unit on the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Developing Ultra-lightweight Electro-Optical Sensor for Drones
Lockheed Martin has revealed plans for an ultra-lightweight electro-optical sensor system that can provide space-telescope capabilities in a package that can be mounted on UAVs and drones. Continue reading
uAvionix and ForeFlight Join Forces to Bring Low Cost ADS-B to General Aviation
uAvionix and ForeFlight join forces to announce the availability of Scout, a revolutionary portable, dual-band ADS-B receiver that delivers inflight weather and traffic information to the ForeFlight Mobile app in the smallest, most elegant form-factor on the market. Retailing at $199 USD, Scout is the industry’s most affordable off-the-shelf ADS-B In solution. Continue reading
Redkite Wide-Area Sensor Undergoes Successful Test Aboard TigerShark
Logos Technologies announced that its powerful, lightweight Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor successfully completed testing aboard a TigerShark, a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC). Continue reading
Northrop Grumman’s New Modular Panel-Based Radar Performs Well in First Flight Test
Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed the first flight test of its innovative modular panel-based sensor. Continue reading
AeroVironment Ships Mantis i45 EO/IR Gimbal Sensor Suite for Puma
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced that its Mantis i45 electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) gimbal sensor suite designed for the AeroVironment Puma AE (All Environment) small UAS is now in full production and shipping to customers. Unveiled last May, the i45 Mantis significantly enhances Puma AE’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Continue reading
Non-GNSS Approach to UAV Navigation
Investigators at the Institute of Systems Optimization (ITE) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have been working on a promising approach that does not use GNSS.