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UAS from Norway (left), the United States (centre), and Russia (right) with the flight teams in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway. Photo Credit: Kjell-Sture Johansen/Norut
An international research team, including scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle, completed a series of unmanned flights over the Arctic on April 30.
Israel’s Urban Aeronautics announced that its AirMule prototype has recently resumed its flight testing after a systems and structural upgrade that lasted 4 months.
Robonic Ltd Oy has successfully demonstrated the high speed launch of representative unmanned air systems in the 100 kg range at speeds of 70 meters per second.
A Botswana Defence Force UAS crashed at Thebephatshwa Airbase last week after experiencing technical problems while in flight.
Z Microsystems, a provider of field-ready computing systems, announced that NHK, a major Japanese television station, is using the Z Microsystems Image Processor to improve the quality of live video coverage of the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Rockwell Collins announced that its Athena inertial navigation system and global positioning system (INS/GPS) has been selected to provide guidance and navigation for the Anka Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV, developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI).
Plans by the U.S. military to consolidate its numbers of ground control stations for unmanned aircraft systems may be moving forward with the announcement Tuesday of a contract to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to integrate a Universal Ground Control Station.