Excerpts from the DRONELIFE drone news for the week of January 27, 2023. Click on a title below to view the full text.
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Amazon plans biggest job cut in history, cutting 18,000 jobs to improve financials. Unfortunately, just starting to get off the ground, Amazon’s drone delivery layoffs will hit hard. prime air team. The Prime Air drone delivery team has been in the spotlight since his Jeff Bezos first brought the idea to the public in 2013. The company was an early mover into drone delivery as the retail giant was forced to stray far from its usual lines. A business that develops unmanned delivery machines from scratch.
Dedrone partners with G4S in EMEA airspace security
Smart Airspace Security Leader Dedroneannounced a partnership with G4S, an Allied Universal® company. This partnership covers Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). At these locations, G4S will provide Dedrone’s command and control (C2) drone detection, tracking and identification (DTI) solution suite to his customers in over 50 countries.
FlytBase Hosts NestGen ’23 Feb 23: BVLOS Drone Operations Best Practices, Solutions
Flight Base Co., Ltd. announced the second edition of NestGen, the industry’s largest global virtual summit on autonomous BVLOS drone operations. His 12-hour event on February 23rd includes DJI, Iris Automation, Elsight, TruWeather Solutions, Hover UAV, Aerodyne, Delta Drone International, Citymesh, Paladin Drones, EVA, Zing Drone Delivery, and Valkari. Topics include autonomous drone technology, drone-in-a-box solutions, BVLOS enablers, and drone delivery operations applications and verticals.
Edgesource Corporation is a Virginia small business that provides airspace security solutions to the public sector. In 2022, Edgesource will join a group of drone companies donating critical equipment to Ukraine, providing approximately $2 million of Windtalker™ Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) technology and a centralized Dowding™ common operations platform to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. provided to
Ring, Compact Counter Drone System Using GNSS Operations to Suppress Threats
Software-based GPS/GNSS security expert Regulus Cyber launches Ring, the first fully operational compact counter-UAS system. Ring utilizes proprietary GNSS manipulation techniques to quell all types of UAS threats. The Ring system relies on combat-proven GNSS maneuvers to override drone controls, hold or crash the drone, or force it to land. This method can be used to target and neutralize a single threat, or an unlimited number of threats at once using very low power transmissions on a single channel. This ensures low collateral damage confined to GNSS channels, as opposed to jamming, which can affect multiple RF channels and interfere with other systems in the area.
Inside a Department of Energy project that uses drones to map radioactive waste depots
FlyabilityAfter more than a year of preparation and research, the Elios 3 has successfully completed a 3D mapping operation of a radioactive waste depot. The information gained from the mapping project is very important in planning the decommissioning of the vault. This is believed to be the first time a drone has penetrated a high-level radioactive waste repository.
Pixhawk Releases Latest Open Standard: Helping Manufacturers Bring New Drones to Market Faster
Pixhawk v6 supports innovation through interoperability and provides a robust, feature-rich set of standards designed to help manufacturers bring new aircraft to market. The Dronecode Foundation (DF) is the organization behind the Pixhawk FMU (Flight Management Units) Open Standards, open to all with contributions and participation from the Pixhawk Special Interest Group. Member of the Drone Code Foundation.
Canada’s first BVLOS approval without visual observer
Leading provider of autonomous inspection and surveillance solutions today PerceptFor the first time in Canada, this BVLOS operation does not require a visual observer on site. Percept Air Max has been issued his BVLOS Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) by Rocky Mountain Unmanned Systems and its general manager, Kevin Toderal, and has been conducting remote inspections on pilot projects since this month.
SkyDrive plans to enter US market and develop practical uses for eVTOL and AAM ecosystem
Today at the 2023 Annual VFS eVTOL Symposium in Mesa, Arizona, leading Japanese eVTOL manufacturers sky drive announced plans to enter the U.S. market and establish an operating presence in South Carolina. There, he plans to develop an advanced air mobility ecosystem and bring eVTOL to practical use in the region. The company was first invited to South Carolina by the Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation (BCEDC) last July. Utilizing the company’s SD-05 eVTOL aircraft, SkyDrive has focused on evaluating practical use cases generated from several major airports in South Carolina.
Choctaw Nation BEYOND Program Receives BVLOS Approval for uAvionix Installation
cormorantAvionics Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Choctaw State (CNO), Oklahoma Beyond Program approval for Beyond Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations at the Emerging Aviation Technology Center UAS Test Range utilizing uAvionix SkyLine™ Managed C2 and Detect announced that & Avoid sensors. This is his second BVLOS exemption issued by the FAA for a combination of uAvionix SkyLine software and SkyLink™ hardware, allowing drone operators in the CNO range to rely on electronic observers while unmanned aerial vehicles are in flight. to meet the requirement to avoid manned aircraft. pilot’s sight range.
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