UAV / Drone News

The latest UAS / UAV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Articles on commercial UAV, tactical drones and unmanned aerial systems, product launches and technological advances in UAV design and manufacture

EC-SAFEMOBIL Project Achieves First Tethered UAV Landing on Mobile Platform

The Centre for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (FADA-CATEC) has announced that its EC-SAFEMOBIL project has achieved the first tethered landing of...

Aug 17, 2015
American University of Sharjah Conducts First Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered UAV Flight in UAE

The American University of Sharjah (AUS) has announced that a team of researchers from its Department of Mechanical Engineering has...

Aug 17, 2015
Routescene and Hanseatic Aviation Solutions Develop LiDAR Mapping UAV

Routescene, a developer of 3D LiDAR technologies, and Hanseatic Aviation Solutions, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have announced...

Aug 12, 2015
WSU and Digital Harvest to Test Unmanned Helicopter for Rainwater Removal

Washington State University has announced that it is partnering with Digital Harvest Corp., a provider of agricultural unmanned aircraft solutions, to...

Aug 12, 2015
ScanEagle UAS Completes Arctic Search and Rescue Demonstration

Insitu, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has conducted flight operations for the U.S. Coast Guard, launching...

Aug 11, 2015
University of Nevada and Partners to Work on NASA UAS Traffic Management Project

Researchers at the University of Nevada have announced that they are working on a new, low-altitude traffic management system to...

Aug 10, 2015
DJI Announces Phantom 3 Standard Photography Drone for Beginner Pilots

DJI, a manufacturer of aerial robotics systems, has announced that it has released the Phantom 3 Standard, a new flying...

Aug 06, 2015
AGCO Announces New Agricultural Field Mapping Drone

AGCO Corporation, a manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, has announced the release of the company’s new Solo AGCO Edition...

Aug 05, 2015
AtlantikSolar UAV Sets New Flight Endurance World Record

ETH Zurich, a Swiss engineering and technology university, has announced that the AtlantikSolar Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), developed by the...

Aug 04, 2015
Lockheed Martin Announces Flight Service for UAS

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has deployed the first components of a UAS traffic management (UTM) system that has...

Aug 04, 2015
National Agricultural Aviation Association Launches UAV Safety Campaign

The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) has announced that it has launched a UAV safety campaign to raise awareness and...

Jul 31, 2015
US Army 3rd Cavalry Regiment Trains with AeroVironment Raven UAVs

The US Army’s 3rd Cavalry Regiment has announced that its members have trained in the use of the RQ-11B Raven...

Jul 30, 2015
Insitu to Provide Blackjack UAS to US Navy and Marine Corps

Insitu, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), has announced that it has received a contract to build...

Jul 30, 2015
Flyox I Amphibious UAV Completes First Flight

Singular Aircraft, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has announced that the company’s Flyox I UAV has...

Jul 29, 2015
Sky-Futures Launches New UAV Services for North Sea Oil & Gas

Sky-Futures, a specialist oil and gas Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspection provider, has announced the launch of two new services...

Jul 29, 2015
Bluesky Produces Prototype UAV Flight Restriction Map

Bluesky, an aerial mapping company, has announced that it has produced a prototype map of the UK showing where it...

Jul 29, 2015
3D Printed UAV Launched from Royal Navy Ship

A team of engineers from the University of Southampton have completed a test flight of the new 3D printed SULSA...

Jul 28, 2015
Transtrex Unveils Geospatial Restriction System for UAVs

Seattle-based Transtrex has released the beta version of a dynamic geospatial restriction system for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), designed to...

Jul 28, 2015
RT LTA Unveils Enhanced Skystar 180 Aerostat

RT LTA Systems Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aerostat systems, has announced that it has launched a new...

Jul 27, 2015
Grand Sky UAS Park to Manage Flight Operations with VirtualAirBoss

Grand Sky, a UAS Business and Aviation Park in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has announced that it has chosen the...

Jul 24, 2015
Tayzu Robotics Partners with Verizon Wireless for Large-Scale Data Collection

Tayzu Robotics, a developer and manufacturer of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has announced that it has entered into a partnership...

Jul 24, 2015
NASA UAS Assists in Unmanned Medical Supply Delivery Research

NASA has announced that an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by the agency has taken part in research flights that...

Jul 21, 2015
Aeryon SkyRanger UAV Secures Special Flight Operations Certificate from Transport Canada

Aeryon Labs, a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems, has announced that the Aeryon SkyRanger small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (sUAV) has...

Jul 17, 2015
Delair-Tech Adds 3G Connectivity to UAVs, Allowing BLOS Operation

Delair-Tech, a manufacturer of UAVs, and Telefonica Business Solutions, a provider of integrated B2B communication solutions, have signed a unique...

Jul 15, 2015
ARCA Space Corporation to Begin Flight Tests on AirStrato UAS

ARCA Space Corporation, a manufacturer of space exploration aircraft, has announced that it has begun production and flight testing of...

Jul 15, 2015
Orion Unmanned Aircraft Sets Flight Duration World Record

Aurora Flight Sciences, a designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems, has announced that the company’s Orion aircraft has set...

Jul 15, 2015
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