U.S. Air Force researchers are choosing embedded computing experts at Space Computer Corp. in Los Angeles to upgrade sensor processing in the Air Force Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral (ACES Hy) side-mounted persistent-surveillance sensor for the MQ-1 Predator. Continue reading
Innocon Reveals Spider for Indian UAS Contest
Israeli manufacturer Innocon has unveiled its candidate for a requirement to supply a new class of unmanned aircraft system to the Indian Air Force and Navy. Continue reading
Ascent Solar Technologies Powers Silent Falcon
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (ASTI), a developer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, announced that it is collaborating with Silent Falcon UAS Technologies and Bye Aerospace to provide its lightweight, flexible copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaics to power the Silent Falcon unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Continue reading
AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute Releases Latest Online Course: Unmanned Aircraft And The National Airspace System
The AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released a new interactive online course entitled “Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System.” Continue reading
UAS to Help Fight Bushfires in Queensland Australia
With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Continue reading
Global Hawk Maintenance At Beale
This video just posted on YouTube shows RQ-4 Global Hawk maintenance routines. Continue reading
MicroStrain’s New Sensing Solution for Remote Environmental Monitoring
MicroStrain has introduced ENV-Link -Mini, which simplifies and streamlines remote environmental monitoring, alerting & reporting. Continue reading
Iran to Fit Missiles to UAS
Iran’s security forces are mounting missiles on it’s independently produced long-range UAS, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding that Iran managed to obtain technical information from the RQ-170that was captured by the Islamic Republic late last year. Continue reading