UPDATE: Amazon has filed for a new certificate to fly an updated drone. The company states that the previous drone from last week's approval is already obsolete. Just when it seemed Amazon's drone delivery service would never take off in American skies, the Federal...
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PrecisionHawk joins NASA collaboration to develop tools for UAS traffic management system for low-altitude drone operations
Precision Hawk, a manufacturer of UAVs and cloud-based software to collect, manage and analyze aerial data across civilian applications, today announced that they will join the NASA collaboration to build a traffic management system for drones. In January,...
These Drones Make a Difference
Somewhere between military drones and paparazzi drones, people are finding uses for drones that improve the world and help noble causes. As UAS technology becomes more ubiquitous, use cases for conservation, search and rescue, and safety are appearing with increasing...
Google’s Internet Drones Set to Fly This Year
Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President at Google, announced at Mobile World Congress that the company's Internet relay drones will hold their initial test flights by the end of the year. Google acquired the drone company Titan Aerospace in April of 2014, and Pichai...
K-State Salina Granted Statewide Airspace Access for UAS
Kansas State University Salina became the first entity to gain Federal Aviation Administration approval to fly unmanned aircraft systems statewide in research operations. The university received three certificates of authorization that allow it to conduct research...
FAA’s New Rules Proposal Only the First Step Towards Regulation
The DOT and FAA released their proposed New Rules for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems on Sunday, a first step in specific regulation for UASs or drones. The proposed rules still need to experience a period of public commentary before being enacted, after which they...