Matternet, which develops drone delivery systems, has begun test operations on a five-kilometer BVLOS (beyond-visual-line-of-sight) route over the city of Zurich, Switzerland. The company said the route is the world’s longest drone delivery route over a major city and will be used to transport diagnostic samples between the Triemli and Waid Hospitals – both a…
Cleo Robotics, which develops the Dronut aerial vehicle platform, has announced a contract with the U.S. Army to deliver several prototype Tactical Dronut (TacDronut) systems to be used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) tasks. The $2.5 million contract was awarded by the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Crticial Technologies Office (RCCTO) following an Army…
H3 Dynamics has announced its aircraft with distributed hydrogen propulsion nacelles has taken flight for the very first time in France.
Amazon has provided a first look at its next-generation delivery drone for its Prime Air delivery service. The MK30 is lighter and smaller than the MK27-2, the drone that will be making deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, later this year.
Sikorsky, a division of Lockheed Martin, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Army how an unmanned Black Hawk helicopter flying autonomously can safely and reliably perform internal and external cargo resupply missions, as well as rescue operations.
The Teledyne FLIR Defense division of Teledyne has announced the launch of the MUVE R430 drone sensor payload, which can be used remotely to detect and identify radiation sources and radiological hazards across several scenarios.
Pyka, which develops autonomous and electric agricultural aerial aircraft, has announced securing regulatory approval to fly unmanned aerial spray missions at night with a fixed wing aircraft.
Cepton, which develops high-performance lidar solutions, has announced it is working with LidarSwiss Solutions GmbH to deploy its lidar technology for a drone-based mapping and analytics solution aimed at infrastructure management and engineering design applications.
DroneDeploy has announced it entered into an agreement to acquire StructionSite, a provider of ground reality capture for the construction industry. The combined company will unify two solutions for aerial and ground capture of data into one complete platform for the construction and energy industries to deploy aerial drones, ground robots and handheld 360-degree cameras to document their sites.
GeoCue has announced that its new TrueView 655/660 will be exhibiting at the upcoming Intergeo 2022 event in Europe. The 655/660 is GeoCue’s third-generation RIEGL integration built with the miniVUX-3UAV and triple mapping cameras (right, left, nadir) for high-accuracy mapping with vegetation penetration and wire detection in a light payload package.
Japan-based SkyDrive has unveiled the design of its commercial model flying car – the SkyDrive SD-05. The company said it will use the SD-05, currently in development, to launch air taxi service in the Osaka Bay area in 2025, during the world exposition in Osaka.
Five winners in the urban air mobility space will share a total of $50,000 in cash prizes as part of the 2022 Urban Air Mobility Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Advanced Technology International (ATI), TechConnect and The Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC). The winners were announced at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit & Expo in Washington, D.c.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released an engineering brief (#105) that provides initial guidelines for advanced electric-powered air mobility (AAM) aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) capabilities.
During a technical session at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Outpost presented a paper on the findings of its two successful flight tests of its autonomous paraglider re-entry system, which enables the return of payloads to Earth from orbit. The tests, conducted in April 2022, mark a milestone for the company in creating a technology aimed to disrupt the future of satellite operations.
SkyDrop, formerly known as Flirtey, has released the first episode of a documentary series telling the historical story of the first FAA-approved drone delivery on U.S. soil.
AeroVironment, which develops multi-domain robotic systems, has announced it received a $20.6 million firm-fixed-price contract in August from the U.S. Army Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions (TAGM) project office. The contract is for the procurement of Switchblade 300 tactical missile systems, a back-packable and rapidly deployable-from-ground system designed to engage beyond-line-of-sight targets.
