A British company using small unmanned air vehicles for photogrammetry has carried out beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights over land in nonsegregated airspace.
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The International Space Station (ISS) resumed six-person operations early June 8 after a brief crew exchange with the docking of Russia’s Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft and its U.S., Russian and European crew—Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev and Alexander Gerst.
Dynetics is to produce up to 1,000 GBU-69/B Small Glide Munitions a year for the USSOCOM in a massive ramp-up in production of the company-developed weapon.
In a recent survey of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s workforce, the words most often used to describe the organization were “bureaucratic” and “slow.”
An overly cautious FAA should change its approach to assessing safety risk when it considers unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, a new study says.
A panel of government and law enforcement officials expressed grave concern to lawmakers about the threat posed by terrorists and criminals operating unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and called on Congress to provide them with more authority and resources to counter malicious drones.
The helicopter, upgraded by Northrop and partner Science and Engineering Services (SES), has entered flight testing in Huntsville, Alabama, and the first modified AH-1Fs have been shipped to Jordan for weapons testing and final acceptance.
New Horizons is in good health and preparing for a flyby of the oddly shaped Kuiper Belt object MU69, also known as Ultima Thule, that is expected to begin in late August.
Just as the first quadcopter drones were for intended hobbyists, the first electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft to hit the market is designed for recreational use.
NASA’s Juno mission at Jupiter has been extended until 2022 to enable scientists to achieve their prime mission goals despite a technical issue that has slowed science gathering.
Montana-based Bridger Aerospace will supply unmanned aircraft system support for wildfire management to the Interior Dept. on a “call when needed” basis.
