19 February 2021
Mérignac, France, 10th February 2021 – With its Skeyetech drone-in-box solution, Azur Drones recently obtained its first autonomous flight authorisation for Northern Europe, thereby opening the path to an operational deployment on an Oil&Gas sector-major player’s site. The French autonomous drone will carry out safety and operations support missions there.
The Danish Civil Aviation Administration has just authorised the use of the Skeyetech autonomous drone in the Copenhagen area, thereby consecrating the reliability of the French system and its compliance with the new European regulatory requirements.
With this authorisation issued following a risk analysis (SORA: Specific Operational Risk Assessment) approved by the EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency), Azur Drones confirms its position as a precursor in innovating drone operations. For several years, the company has been contributing to regulatory works at the international level to make autonomous
Mercury Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced that president and CEO Mark Aslett is a recipient of Executive Mosaic’s government contracting (GovCon) 2021 Wash100 Award, a prestigious award recognizing the most influential leaders in the GovCon sector.
In its eighth year, the award’s criteria include demonstrated excellence in five key areas: leadership, innovation, reliability, vision and achievement. According to Executive Mosaic’s leadership, Mercury’s investments in secure processing and trusted microelectronics in support of the Department of Defense’s focus on mitigating national security threats stood out as a notable achievement.
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First, you need to buy an affordable quadcopter. Be prepared for the fact that you will crash. Drones are expensive, but even with GPS and obstacle avoidance technology, it’s easy to wreck your drone.
One issue with obstacle avoidance is the sensors are only on the front. When you are learning to fly, you can back into something easily.
Loss of control resulting in a fly-away and eventual crash, Goodwood Aerodrome, West Sussex, 4 July 2019.
Whilst performing a demonstration flight, the remote pilot lost control of the 95 kg Alauda Airspeeder Mk II scale demonstrator. After the loss of control had been confirmed by the remote pilot, the safety ‘kill switch’ was operated but had no effect. The Unmanned Aircraft then climbed to approximately 8,000 ft, entering controlled airspace at a holding point for flights arriving at Gatwick Airport, before its battery depleted and it fell to the ground. It crashed in a field of crops approximately 40 m from occupied houses and 700 m outside of its designated operating area. There were no injuries.
17 February 2021
Today, Fotokite announced the release of its fully autonomous aerial intelligence product line, the Fotokite Sigma, alongside its distribution partners in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Intellitronika, Desautel Group, Emergency One, Excelerate, Primetech, Growag and Brandschutztechnik Schlichtiger, has already begun supplying European Firefighters and Public Safety teams with the Fotokite Sigma for gathering fully automatic situational awareness at emergency response sites throughout Europe.
European Public Safety teams are starting to receive fully autonomous aerial intelligence technologies for use at their emergency response sites. The Fotokite Sigma, an actively tethered UAS equipped with thermal and low-light imaging capabilities, launches at the push of a button and never requires any piloting whatsoever while providing incident commanders with elevated situational awareness throughout their responses. With this brand new product category, Pu