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NASA recently signed a Space Act Agreement with San Francisco-based Zipline “to pursue a future vision of U.S. aviation that includes delivery drones and air taxis,” says the NASA announcement. Continue reading below, or listen: The agreement will help NASA to explore the concept of one pilot operating multiple drones, which …

Don’t miss Skydio on Dawn of Drones this week, Wednesday August 3 at 11:00 AM EST!  Stream below:   Join Dawn and her special guest from Skydio, Anna Wiesenthal-Birch, the company’s VP of People Operations! Skydio is our sponsor-of-the-month for August, which focuses on the theme of “Developing Industry Leaders.” …

A challenge questioning whether the FAA rule on Remote ID for drones was constitutional has failed. Continue reading below, or listen: A 3-judge appellate panel has ruled that the Remote ID rule for drones, which would require all drones to utilize technology that will identify the location of both aircraft …

At DRONELIFE, we’ve been writing about drone delivery – and public opinion of drone delivery – since our inception in 2013. Continue reading below, or listen: 2022, however, has been the best year yet for drone delivery programs in the U.S.  Walmart has gotten their program off the ground and …

Autonomous System Captures Intruding Drones with a Net: the AUDROS cUAS System by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby The AUDROS system, a drone solution that captures foreign drones in a net, has completed successfully testing in the Czech Republic. Continue reading below, or listen: As opposed to other interception …

Archer UAM Aircraft Moves Closer to Commercial Viability with Honeywell Flight Control and Thermal Technology by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Archer Aviation [NYSE: ACHR] is one of the holdings in the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV], the only ETF dedicated to the drone economy. The AdvisorShares Drone …

Read or listen to all of the headlines in one place: excerpts from the DRONELIFE drone news of the week, July 29.  Click on the titles below for the full story. Continue reading below, or listen: Swoop Aero Collaborates with FAA and CASA for Joint Type Certification for Kite Delivery …

FAA Approval will Double Flytrex Drone Delivery Range by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Today, on-demand drone delivery leader Flytrex announced that it has been granted approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to expand its current delivery radius from one to two nautical miles throughout all of its …

American Robotics Reveals New Features for the Oil and Gas Industry by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Ondas Holdings [NASDAQ:ONDS] is one of the holdings in the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV], the only ETF dedicated to the drone economy. The AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF is a thematic …

Introducing Global Mapper Mobile’s New GNSS Device Support via TCP/IP Communication Global Mapper Pro is a powerful geospatial data analysis program that contains tools for everything from raster image processing to photogrammetric point cloud creation with the Pixels to Points tool. Designed to work alongside Global Mapper Pro, the free …