Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
CHELMSFORD, UK, April 30, 2019 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially designated the CCD sensors that comprise the focal plane arrays of the 26 telescopes being supplied for ESA’s PLATO exoplanet hunting mission, CCD Bruyères. ESA officially acknowledged this announcement in the technical specifications of the instruments of PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
VANCOUVER and CHICAGO – Ballard Unmanned Systems, Inc. – a subsidiary of Ballard Power Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) – today announced the launch of the FCair™ fuel cell product line, a complete long duration fuel cell power solution for commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), at the AUVSI Xponential Annual Conference and Expo 2019
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
TYSONS, Va.- ATA, LLC has partnered with Harris Corporation to provide safety-critical aerospace management solutions for the fast-growing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) industry. Under the arrangement, ATA and Harris jointly developed LAANC and obtained all FAA-required approvals to offer the service. Highlights Harris approved by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a UAS Service Supplier (USS)
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
RENO, Nev.- Today, GE Aviation and Auterion announce the integration of the Auterion Enterprise PX4 operating system on GE Aviation’s Unmanned Aircraft System avionics platform. They show their commitment by signing a teaming agreement to provide a comprehensive hardware and software solution for drone manufacturers and operators seeking to enable commercial drone operations at scale.
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
PLEASANT GROVE, UT – Fortem Technologies, Inc., the leader in airspace awareness, safety and security for a drone world, and Unifly, a leading unmanned traffic management (UTM) provider, announced they will collaborate to develop a joint airspace safety and security solution for a drone-enabled society. This new end-to-end solution will allow UTM and U-space architectures
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
TEWKSBURY, Mass.– Massachusetts-based Ascent AeroSystems today announced the specifications, pricing, availability and launch customer for “Spirit,” its new dual-rotor coaxial drone and named Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics as the launch customer. Spirit from Ascent AeroSystems is a unique, versatile drone for defense, intelligence and public safety applications Compact Spirit drone fits easily into a backpack “Bulky, fragile
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that its founder and president Jack Dangermond received the royal Dutch decoration, Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Jan Hamming, Mayor of Zaanstad, awarded the accolade to Dangermond on behalf of King Willem-Alexander. The decoration was bestowed upon Dangermond in recognition of his extraordinary
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
Two awardees have been recognized with the 2018 William T. Pecora Award for achievements in Earth remote sensing. Barbara J. Ryan has been honored for her many contributions, including promoting public access to Earth observation data. The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) international team has been recognized for significant contributions to advancing atmospheric monitoring for the
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Karlsruhe/Munich, 29 April 2019. Municipal authorities are well aware when autumn starts. In the future, they will also know exactly where in a city each and every tree is located, its height and trunk diameter, and even the amount of leaves it will shed – useful information from a waste disposal perspective. This is just
Monday, April 29th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, today announced the launch of Casia – the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous vehicles. For the first time, there’s a system that allows an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to truly understand
