A San Francisco-based lab called Darwin Aerospace (which happens to be run by the popular food review site Yelp) has successfully test-launched an automatic delivery service that uses GPS-equipped drone to deliver burritos. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman, Cassidian Fly First Sensor-Equipped EURO HAWK Unmanned Aircraft
Northrop Grumman Corporation and EADS Deutschland GmbH, operating through Cassidian, together achieved a major milestone on Friday, January 11 with the first full system test flight of the EURO HAWK unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with the signals intelligence (SIGINT) advanced sensors for detection of radar and communication emitters. Continue reading
BAE Systems Plans Taranis Test Flights in Australia in Spring
BAE Systems‘ Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is to be flown for the first time in a series of tests over the Australian outback in the spring in an attempt to demonstrate the technology to military chiefs. Continue reading
NYPD Considers UAS to Monitor Crowds
UAS might eventually be used for surveillance in New York City, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed last Thursday. Continue reading
TerraLuma Research Project Uses Oktokopter with Multiple Sensors to Monitor Environment
Engineers working on the TerraLuma Project at the University of Tasmania, Australia are bringing hyperspectral capabilities to their fleet of unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
DRONENET – The Next BIG Thing
Here’s the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet.What is it? It’s an Internet of drones. Continue reading
NASA Sends Global Hawk into Stratosphere to Study Climate Change
Starting this month NASA will send an autonomously flown unmanned research aircraft up to 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how Earth is changing in a warming climate. Continue reading
Aurora Flight Sciences Opens New Plant in Mississippi
Governor Phil Bryant, Aurora Flight Sciences Chief Executive Officer John Langford, Senator Roger Wicker and Representative Alan Nunnelee cut the ribbon on Tuesday at the company’s new 30,000-square-foot facility at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport in Columbus, Mississippi. Continue reading