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
UAS Payloads – Needs, Capabilities and Opportunities – Conference in San Diego
The Technology Training Corporation is holding a two-day conference on “UAS Payloads – Needs, Capabilities and Opportunities.” The conference starts tomorrow, Tuesday November 15th at the Holiday Inn On-The-Bay, San Diego, California. Continue reading
NASA Global Hawk Leads Stratospheric Humidity Research Programme
NASA's Global Hawk over Edwards Air Force Base - Photo: NASA / Carla Thomas
NASA’s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment, or ATTREX, will conduct this research over the Pacific Ocean from three locations in 2013 and 2014. Continue reading
Airborne Avalanche Rescue System
The project for an Airborne Avalanche Rescue System by designer Tatjana Rolle aims to decrease crucial emergency rescue times after avalanches by utilizing autonomous airborne drones to detect and mark the position of victims.
Gray Eagle Controlled from Apache
The LONGBOW LLC’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Tactical Common Data Link Assembly (UTA) recently controlled an unmanned aircraft from an AH-64D Apache Block III attack helicopter, while both were in flight. The LONGBOW LLC is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Continue reading
University of Cincinnati Study Shows UAS Save Firefighter Lives
MarcusUAV Zephyr
Kelly Cohen, associate professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati, supervises a project known as SIERRA (Surveillance for Intelligent Emergency Response Robotic Aircraft) which integrates small, unmanned aircraft with global positioning systems, environmental data, video and fire-prediction software to give real-time information about where a fire is burning, and where it is moving. Continue reading
DARPA Enlists Hackers to Prevent Cyber Attacks
Darpa’s Kathleen Fisher told the agency’s first-ever Cyber Colloqium, a gathering that seeks to enlist hackers’ ideas, that the usual picture of cyberattacks involves hackers — maybe sponsored by a government — trying to penetrate a data network, is too narrow a conception. Continue reading