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French drone supplier Delair has introduced a gross sales settlement with Cansel, a Canadian supplier of surveying and mapping options. The deal directs gross sales of Delair’s UX 11 long-range drone, with plans to incorporate the corporate’s full product line. The settlement additionally means Delair fixed-wing drones are actually licensed as …

Groundbreaking army analysis is giving drones their day in the solar – or at the very least half a day. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is empowering drones to remain aloft greater than 12 hours utilizing power from the solar and wind. Although the analysis is focusing on army functions, …

MIT engineers have achieved it once more – this time creating an autonomous glider drone that may survey lots of of miles of ocean floor all whereas being powered naturally by the wind. Created to imitate the albatross, the drone can dip a keel into the water in calm winds …

While the U.S. has been busy asserting the 10 chosen contributors within the drone Integration Pilot Program (IPP), Transport Canada has been creating a complete pilot program for past visible line of sight (BVLOS) flight – one designed to point out communities how they might profit from extensive unfold adoption …

Our buddies at Ocean Alliance have been pioneering the usage of drones for marine analysis for fairly a while. But till very just lately, these drones had been primarily off-the-shelf quadcopters, modified to be flying Petri dishes able to gathering whale snot with out disturbing the animals. These flying ‘SnotBots’ …

A France-based drone supplier simply launched a brand new fixed-wing drone that gives a mixture of hardware and software program improvements match for survey-grade mapping and different industrial missions. Last week, Delair introduced the world availability of the UX11 fixed-wing UAV following a spherical of ultimate assessments. The drone might …

A Silicon Valley drone startup is making on-the-spot drone missions speedier and longer. Mountain Valley-based UAVOS final week introduced the launch of the Borey-10 unmanned fixed-wing plane, a drone with a number of new design enhancements that enable a person to assemble the UAV in about 10 minutes. Innovative design …

The U.S. Interior Department will quickly be utilizing drones to guard the nation’s pure sources and to deal with emergencies. New Hampshire-based Birdseyeview Aerobotics gained a federal contract to supply 50 vertical-takeoff-and-landing fixed-wing drones to the federal company that oversees thousands and thousands of acres of public land and administers …

Industrial drone supplier Delair inked a business settlement Monday with UAV gross sales/help agency Frontier Precision that can launch Delair’s first service facilities within the U.S. whereas additionally offering a brand new home gross sales outlet for the French-based firm. Based in North Dakota, Frontier Precision already gives drone gross …

PUMA UAV Test Launch (PRNewsfoto/SolAero Technologies Corp.) A partnership between a number one solar-cell supplier and Johns Hopkins University might give a sunny forecast to longer drone battery life. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory lately awarded a contract to SolAero Technologies Corp. – maker of photo voltaic cells and aerospace-applied …