The Israeli Air Force’s largest unmanned aircraft is scheduled to begin operations within several months after eight years in development. Continue reading
Iranian Students Build $15,000 UAS
Head of the Khomeini-Shahr branch of the Islamic Azad University, Khalifeh Soltani, announced on Monday that a group of students have built an unmanned aircraft which specializes in rescue and relief operations.
“Drones” 4th Most Frequent Word in Internet Media in 2011
Respected UK daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, just published the Global Language Monitor Top 10 lists of the most commonly used words, phrases and names in English speaking media internet in the past year. It concludes that ‘drones’ has entered the list of the Top 10 most commonly used words – in fourth place. The full list is here:
ICUAS 12 June 2012 – Succeeds UAV 08-10
Since its debut in 2008, the annual UAV Symposium has grown tremendously. To better reflect this growth and embrace the attention the field of unmanned systems receives globally, this annual meeting will be renamed “INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS”. ICUAS 12 will be held in Philadelphia, PA, during the week of June 11, 2012. Continue reading
Shackleton Energy Company to Mine the Moon for Water with Manned and Unmanned Systems
The process of establishing the world’s first operational lunar base and propellant depot business in space is underway as the Shackelton Energy Company launches its initial fund raising campaign. This comes in the footsteps of recent amazing new discoveries of huge deposits of propellant-feedstock ice on the moon by NASA and other international space programmes. Continue reading
European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop
On 16 November 2011, the European Commission UAS Panel’s 4th Workshop will take place in the Europa meeting room at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, Belgium from 09.00 to 17.40 (registration starts at 08.30). This workshop will cover the following topics and their pertinence to UAS: societal impact, privacy, data protection, liability and ethical concerns. Continue reading
UAS Latin America Highlights UAS Potential
On 25-27 October 2011 the UAS Latin America conference & exhibition took place at the Technology Park in Sao José dos Campos in Brazil. Continue reading
Spanish Students Build Unmanned Solar Aircraft
A team of seven students from the Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed the technology for flying the Solar Endeavour UPC, Spain’s first photovoltaic-powered plane built by students. Continue reading