When the need for accurate positioning is highest, close to the ground, GPS can be at its most unreliable, creating the need for alternative sensors to ensure safe takeoffs and landings by drones.
The prospects for subjects of search-and-rescue operations will be better with the introductions of improved distress beacon services, starting in December.
Donald Trump’s election to the White House means change is coming to the A&D world, but practically no one—maybe not even the president-elect—knows exactly what those changes will be.
Four unmanned and optionally piloted aircraft from Lockheed Martin and subsidiary Sikorsky flew together for the first time in public in a staged firefighting and search-and-rescue demo at Griffiss, New York
After years of declining research efforts, defense primes and aerospace OEMs are repositioning to become the perfect partners for startups via corporate venture capital projects.
NASA is looking for a few good anomalies to help researchers develop an unmanned aircraft traffic management system that will work any time and all the time.
While the flight needs of the U.S. Army and Navy could not be more dissimilar, the expectation for positive results through simulation and training upgrades is common.
The U.S. Air Force has made several general officer assignments: Maj. Gen. Timothy G. Fay has been named director of operations, strategic deterrence and nuclear integration for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Africa, Ramstein AB, Germany. Fay, who had been director of strategic plans, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs at the Pentagon, replaces Maj. Gen. John K. McMullen, who has been named vice commander of Air Combat Command Headquarters, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Also, Brig. Gen. Douglas K.
China's Casic says its KZ-11 can hurl 1 metric ton to a 700-km (430-mi.) sun-synchronous orbit, exactly the same that CASC attributed last year to Long March 6.
Aurora Flight Sciences and Sikorsky complete autonomy demonstrations under Phase 2 of DARPA’s ALIAS cockpit-automation program. Both are now bidding for Phase 3, to mature selected technologies for transition to potential customers—military and commercial.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Heritage Foundation on military options for new administration; Trump may back bilateral space ties with China; and the flood of new UAV pilots.
