Japan Plots Path To One-To-Many Drone Operations

Japan’s KDDI and AeroNext tested use of SpaceX’s StarLink network to communicate with delivery drones in an area hit by landslides.

Credit: KDDI
KDDI and Japan Airlines are to formulate a concept of operations enabling one operator to manage multiple drones, known as one-to-many operations, under a project funded by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The companies are to draw up the operating...
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