By Chris Stonor The building blocks for a specialist “air traffic control tower” for drones flying over Singapore are in place after trials for the
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Category: UTM
Altitude Angel: Building a safer and better sky
By Chris Stonor Altitude Angel announced this week it hopes to become Europe’s foremost supplier of UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technologies enabling nationwide drone operations
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Israel “to trial autonomous urban airspace management system with 20 drones”
On 17 and 18 March, what-is-understood-to-be the world’s largest demonstration of drones flying in a managed airspace is due to take place in Israel. The
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“Who should manage urban airspace?” – CIVATAglobal webinar
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes* It seems somehow strange that in most of the world the only responsibility that local authorities have for managing drone and urban
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SESAR launches UAM U-Space large demonstrator projects
The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) has signed off in the last week a new portfolio of very large-scale demonstrations aimed at making aviation smarter and
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‘Drone highways above public rights of way would jump-start the industry’ says Mercatus study
Researchers at Mercatus, part of the George Mason University in the USA, believe a federal-state agreement to create aerial corridors directly above public roads, creating
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DDC announces proposal “to integrate AI into its drones”
By Chris Stonor Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has provided an update on its proposal to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its drones, reports a company
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SESAR launches large scale CORUS-XUAM demonstration project: first target – city airspace
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK will host a series of large-scale live demonstrations on urban air mobility, as part of CORUS-XUAM
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Airspace of the Future consortium aims to integrate drone services within the wider UK transport ecosystem – Future Flight Challenge
The Airspace of the Future (AoF) consortium is made up of nine UK organisations – Altitude Angel, Thales, Cranfield University, Cranfield Airport Operations, Inmarsat, Ocado
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Huawei patents new drone control system that uses AI
By Chris Stonor The technological giant, Huawei, is turning its eye more and more to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and recently patented a product with
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