The last two years has seen the start of parcel and post deliveries by drone to remote areas throughout Europe. In France the postal service
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Category: UAS traffic management news
The UK is now “up to two years ahead of U-Space deployment milestones”
The UK will have key elements of a UTM system operational up to two years ahead of the European Union’s U-Space programme, according to Andrew
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Investors fund Iris Automation drone collision-avoidance development
Iris Automation, a provider of collision avoidance for commercial drones, has announced a USD8 million Series A financing round to fund a new generation of
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Orbital demonstrates options for short-range counter-UAS requirements
Orbital ATK reports it has recently participated in the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. The event allowed soldiers to use counter-unmanned
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French drone council outlines UTM priorities – urban parcel deliveries are not among them
France’s civil aviation authority the Directorate General for Civil Aviation is hoping to authorise its first long-range drone operations by the end of the year,
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Drone airspace infringements fall in the Netherlands
The number of fines for illegal use of drones in the Netherlands has fallen from a peak in 2016, according to Rob van Nieuwland of
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Boeing builds, flies scaled version of a cargo drone
Boeing (http://www.boeing.com/features/2018/01/cargo-air-vehicle-01-18.page) has announced its Horizon X team has completed initial flight tests of an electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned cargo aerial vehicle (CAV) prototype. When
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More than one million drones now registered in the USA
US Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that the total number of drones now registered with the Federal
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Bell exhibits electric/hybrid urban air taxi cabin at CES
One of the surprise exhibits at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has been Bell Helicopter’s electric helicopter cabin. The full version of the
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European drone operators! What should be the priorities of a European UTM system?
The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) and partners are developing a concept of operations for a European UAS traffic management system and are asking drone operators for
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