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

SBG Systems Launches Ellipse Series Miniature Inertial Sensors

SBG Systems has released the Ellipse Series, a brand new range of miniature inertial systems replacing the IG-500 Series. For...

Sep 03, 2014
Velodyne Breaks LiDAR Sensor Price Barrier with Sub $8k 3D Real-Time ‘LiDAR Puck’

In a bid to dramatically expand the use of 3D LiDAR sensors in robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles and automation applications,...

Sep 03, 2014
microdrones VTOL UAVs Aid Rescue Efforts After Floods

Rescue teams have been using md4-1000 Quadrocopters, developed by Germany-based microdrones GmbH, following recent flooding and landslides in Serbia and...

Sep 02, 2014
Research Students Test UAV Autonomous Mission Control System

A team of research students and staff from Warsaw University of Technology have successfully demonstrated the first phase of flight...

Sep 01, 2014
GA-ASI Radar Detects Maritime Targets from Airborne Reaper UAS

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, a leading manufacturer of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optical and related mission systems...

Sep 01, 2014
U.S. Coast Guard & NOAA Evaluate Puma UAS During Arctic Exercise

Scientists at the Coast Guard Research and Development Center, based in New London, Connecticut, have a long history of studying...

Sep 01, 2014
Topcon & MAVinci Release Aerial Mapping UAS

Topcon Positioning Group has announced the worldwide availability of two unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for mapping — the Sirius Pro...

Sep 01, 2014
ING Robotic Aviation Increases Responder UAS Flight Time

The flight time of Responder, a rotary wing robotic aircraft system, has been upgraded from 25 minutes to 40 minutes,...

Aug 29, 2014
SimActive Releases New GPU-Based Orthorectification Module

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce Correlator3D™ version 5.3, with significantly faster orthorectification. The...

Aug 28, 2014
INL Selects RT Logic to Demo Common Data Link for SUAS

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its RT Logic subsidiary has been selected by Idaho National Laboratory...

Aug 28, 2014
Drone Aviation Delivers ISR Systems to U.S. Army

Drone Aviation Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Drone Aviation Holding Corp, a developer of specialized tethered drones and lighter-than-air...

Aug 27, 2014
Schiebel Camcopter UAS Helps Refugees in the Mediterranean Sea

Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS is being used to identify refugee boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea. The Migrant Offshore...

Aug 27, 2014
Global Hawk UAS Variants Exceed 100,000 Combat/Operational Support Hours

Two U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Northrop Grumman Corporation’s high altitude long endurance (HALE)...

Aug 27, 2014
Scion UAS Demonstrate Autonomous Takeoff and Landing on a Moving Platform

Scion UAS raised the bar on unmanned aerial system (UAS) capabilities by demonstrating autonomous takeoff and landing from a moving...

Aug 26, 2014
RQ-4 Global Hawk Completes 100th NASA Flight

The first completed Global Hawk has made history again with its 100th flight in support of NASA environmental research. The...

Aug 26, 2014
BAE Developing Smart Skin Technology to Detect Damage on Aircraft

Work is underway at BAE Systems to give aircraft human-like ‘skin’, enabling the detection of injury or damage and the...

Aug 22, 2014
UAS Flies Beyond Visual Line of Sight in Spain

An unmanned aircraft flight beyond visual line of sight (BLOS) has been conducted a the ATLAS (Air Traffic Laboratory for...

Aug 20, 2014
Northrop Grumman Developing DARPA’s XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Design

Northrop Grumman Corporation with Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic is developing a preliminary design and flight demonstration plan for the...

Aug 19, 2014
K-MAX Unmanned Helicopter Deploys SMSS UGV During Fully Autonomous Demonstration

Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), successfully conducted a fully...

Aug 19, 2014
X-47B Unmanned Air System and F/A-18 Conduct Cooperative Flights

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy offered a glimpse of the future of carrier aviation on Aug. 17 by...

Aug 18, 2014
Global Hawk UAS Completes 100th Operational Mission & Deploys to Pacific

The U.S. Air Force’s RQ-4 Global Hawk, a wide area surveillance unmanned aircraft system, has just completed its 100th operational...

Aug 14, 2014
Neya Systems Releases UxAB Autonomy Hardware and Software Module

Neya Systems has announced the release of its UxAB™ Autonomy hardware and software stack. As a part of Neya’s growing...

Aug 14, 2014
Omnetics’ Ruggedized Strip Connectors Proven in Extreme Environments

The Omnetics range of high reliability strip connectors feature ruggedized insulators and military quality Flex Pin® technology, and have proven...

Aug 14, 2014
Headwall Releases New High Resolution Hyperspectral Sensor for UAVs

Headwall has announced the availability of a new hyperspectral imager targeting very high resolution spectral measurements of 0.1 nm over...

Aug 12, 2014
New UST Profile: Unmanned Systems Source – Supplier of Unmanned Systems, Components and Accessories

The new Unmanned Systems Source profile is now live on the Unmanned Systems Technology (“UST”) website. The ‘Gold‘ profile highlights...

Aug 12, 2014
Cubic Wins Contract to Supply Common Data Link for Small UAS

Cubic Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract valued at $1.8 million from Idaho National Laboratory to...

Aug 12, 2014
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