U.S. authorities have their sights set on China-based drone maker DJI, a company that has popularised drones for consumer and commercial markets globally. The U.S. Congress intends to ban it, as they have begun to see DJI as a national security threat. Once the bipartisan legislation passes and the firm …
Read More »FCC Starts Rulemaking on Licensed Spectrum for UAS Use
The Federal Communications Commission on January 4th proposed rules to enable wireless communications for unmanned aircraft system use in the 5030-5091 MHz band and sought comment on whether measures are necessary to facilitate such use on flexible-use wireless networks. Unmanned aircraft systems today primarily operate under unlicensed and low-power wireless …
Read More »Facebook building prototype test facility in New Mexico: FCC…
Facebook may have ended its secretive internet-drone project — but that doesn’t mean its attempts to build experimental communications hardware are over. Filings seen by Business Insider show that the California social network has been granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to build a secretive, previously unreported “hardware prototype …
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