Quadsat is providing a simplified method of testing for the antenna registration process, the Danish company has announced. This is to test user terminals, including fixed, comms-on-the-move (COTM) and phased array, as well as earth stations across the network. The drone-based testing company says it is working with major satellite operators. This includes a partnership with GovSat to allow all ...
Anduril, the US- and London-based defence contractor, has taken up a tenancy in one of the Satellite Applications Catapult’s drone hangars at its Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC) in Westcott. The company had been searching for a site to safely test and develop its autonomous drone capabilities, the Catapult related. “Due to the talent we want to attract, a ...
American Aerospace Technologies has won an FAA waiver and exemption to fly its unmanned aircraft commercially beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight over the San Joaquin Valley, California. The AiRanger aircraft has a 5.7m wingspan, weights 100kg and can fly for 12 hours or 1,200km. Power comes from an 8hp engine. Rules constrain its altitude to 8,000feet (~2,500m) and a ~11,000km2 ...
Engineers at the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are researching new drone technology to help clear mined areas at greater speed and with more safety. A Combination of technologies – both advances in uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and low size, weight and power (SWaP) sensing – are leading the development of innovative concepts for explosive threat detection, reported ...
ISS Aerospace has been awarded a £500,000 grant – by the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and InnovateUK – for the development of a vertical take-off and landing Heavy-Lift Unmanned Aircraft System (HLUAS). Using a hybrid power system – a “hybrid-electric gas turbine powerplant” – the brief is to deliver “extended range, endurance and a payload significantly greater than ...
Saildrone, the 11 year-old San Francisco startup which has raised $190 million to make uncrewed service vessels (USVs), is using Nvidia’s Jetson processor modules for on-board data analysis. These sailing vessels are marine data collection machines which require energy-efficient computing at the edge to handle intensive data processing while running mostly on solar and wind power. “With solar power, being ...
Today's Picture of the Day features the Satellite Applications Catapult launching its new Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC), a facility at the Westcott Venture Park in Buckinghamshire.
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A Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC) has opened at Westcott Venture Park near Aylesbury, in a project funded by the Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership. The Satellite Applications Catapult has agreed a lease with the site’s owners to run the newly developed drone test facilities. The goal is to enable drone operators and companies to refine products and services at ...
The University of Zurich is teaching drones to fly at the highest possible speed thorough complex environments. “Our algorithm leverages classical topological path planning and deep reinforcement learning,” according to the University’s Robotics and Perception Group. In the first step, (right) many collision free paths are found using a probablistic rodmap method. After this, the paths are filtered with different ...
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