Silent Falcon UAV surpasses 500 hours of flight test time

The E1 UAV completed 500 hours of successful flight testing and operations. (Photo: Silent Falcon UAS Technologies) Silent Falcon UAS Technologies’ (SFUAS) E1 UAV completed 500 hours of successful flight testing and operations. According to the company, the E1 is…
Marine vessels to use Oceaneering C-Nav positioning

Oceaneering C-Nav Positioning Solutions to provide C-Nav5000 GNSS receivers for select SEACOR marine vessels The C-Nav5000 GNSS receiver. (Photo: Oceaneering) Oceaneering C-Nav Positioning Solutions has been selected by SEACOR Marine to supply C-Nav5000 GNSS receivers for a select number of…
Airbus reminds pilots what to do when GNSS interference hits

Airbus is providing safety information to all pilots, not just those of the new BelugaXL. (Photo: Airbus) Commercial airline pilots should be ready if their GNSS interference or jamming takes place. This safety message, along with steps to take, was…
DroneUp to provide Alaska with public drone services

DroneUp LLC and the State of Alaska have signed a Participating Addendum for the NASPO ValuePoint contract for unmanned aerial vehicle services. The contract begins the offering for the purchase of complete drone solutions to all state agencies, commissions, political…
Department of Transportation updates guidelines on autonomous vehicles

Image: USDOT The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday released updated guidelines for autonomous vehicles. “Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated Vehicles 4.0” (AV 4.0) was announced by U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao in a keynote speech…
Space weather research the focus of US House bill

The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has approved legislation to coordinate federal government space weather research. Included in the bill is a finding that space weather adversely affects space-based position, navigation and timing (PNT). ‘‘The effects of…
Thales awarded GSA grant for GIANO Galileo receiver

Photo: Canetti / iStock / Getty Images Plus News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Thales Alenia Space has been awarded a grant under the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA) Fundamental Elements funding mechanism for the development of the GIANO (Galileo-based TIming…
Some airlines miss ADS-B Jan. 1 deadline

Photo: icholakov/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus BahamasAir has missed the U.S. deadline for the new ADS-B mandate and is now forbidden from flying certain three of its four jets in United States airspace. The airline said it has adjusted its aircraft…
Septentrio partners with NXP, Analog Devices for high-precision

Septentrio’s GNSS devices are being used for high-accuracy positioning solutions by two companies. Compact multi-frequency GPS/GNSS receiver module provides robust centimeter-level positioning for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) provided by NXP. Septentrio and Analog Devices collaborate on high-performance GNSS/INS solutions.…