UTM

Hidden Level, a venture-backed company specializing in low altitude airspace monitoring, announced today a collaboration with Uber Elevate. According to a company press release: “Together the companies aim to advance the safety of urban air […]

Frankfurt-based Droniq and UK-based Sky Drone have entered into a strategic partnership that allows the German company to use Sky Drone’s technology for controlling UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) remotely in real-time and without any limitation in range, […]

The Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Ireland – the U-Flyte strategic research partnership (see box) – has published a paper “Fundamental Elements of an Urban UTM.” The 28-page paper reports that urban airspace and […]

A lack of standardization in referencing altitudes across components in the small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) domain is a hurdle to implementing UTM systems in an urban environment but high-density operations can be managed in […]

Fortem Technologies has announced it has completed the first phase of the US Department of Transportation’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP) in North Carolina. As part of the program, Fortem is conducting […]

According to the theregister.co.uk, Latvian authorities are hunting a 26kg drone that went missing mid-flight, causing air-traffic problems. Local Latvian news website, Apollo, reported that a test flight went disastrously wrong when drone firm SIA […]

According to aviationpros.com, OneSky, the leading developer of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) platforms, announced this week that it’s secured a Series A funding round led by Sumitomo Corporation.  This funding […]

Jim Banke, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, reports NASA’s aeronautical innovators are embracing a more inclusive vision for the future of air travel in at least one major research area. Their terminology has changed to ‘Advanced […]

Intermittent communications based on mobile network operator (MNO) cellular networks can support highly automated UAS delivery operations, according to Reinaldo Negron, head of UTM at Wing, speaking at the first “Connected Skies,” webinar on 18 […]

uAvionix has introduced a new ADS-B transponder to its General Aviation (GA) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) lineup.  tailBeaconX, the new Mode S Extended Squitter (ES) ADS-B OUT transponder is intended to address global air traffic […]