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Boeing to launch 3D camera
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 — The Boeing Company today announced it has begun offering a new, compact, energy-efficient camera that provides three-dimensional images for military and commercial applications. Boeing Directed Energy Systems and wholly owned Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab have jointly developed the camera using their own research and development funding, and successfully... »
TERP II India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
MKU has developed India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle christened ‘TERP-II’. It will be showcasing a prototype of TERP-II at the Defexpo-2010 which is undergoing advanced testing routines at this moment. It plans to officially launch the ‘TERP-II’ by the middle of this year. The TERP II is a... »
Former USAF Officer defends airships…
The DEWline reports. The managing director of the Market Intelligence Group (MIG), Herlik has gone public on YouTube with his frustration about what he calls an “illegal” move by a former Space Command official to countermand a direct order by a former USAF chief of staff. I’ve excerpted the key passage from the video below: “Why... »
Project Andromeda
Certainly one to watch in the 2010 Australian Outback Challenge, the team has designed their own autopilot and are now integrating it into their airframe. Good luck to them and all the other contenders! Follow built blog progress here Website here If the quality of the website is anything to go by it should be a cracking entry... »
Green Falcon forest management with 24 hour sUAS
Lives and millions of dollars could be saved using solar technology and a new unmanned flight system design for round-the-clock surveillance. Queensland University of Technology engineers are creating a solar unmanned airborne vehicle capable of providing 24-hour services to emergency services, without fuel or pollution. The Green Falcon solar UAV – designed by PHD student, Wessam... »
New one stop UAV shop
From servos to complete UAS systems EMTechnologies have become a one stop UAV shop. The company has created a range of composite UAS airframes all flown by the Attopilot UAV autopilot. »
Stanford students flying high.
The record attempt was made by a group of graduate students who took a course this spring in the Aero/Astro Department at Stanford University. This year the goal for the course was to design a small UAV to beat the remote control altitude record (~11, 000 ft). There were four teams of 4-5 students... »
The Outback Challenge
Organisers of the Outback Challenge have released the list of those entries that have made it through the various rounds of technical requirements. Well done to all of them. 1. Melbourne UAV 2. Team Galah 3. Team Heads Up UAV 4. Open UAS 5. Team Rocky 6. Team Javelin 7. Team Jatayu 8. QUT SRUAV09 9. Cooee Rescue 10. Team Sasha 11. University of Adeladie 12. UQ AVRG Airborne Delivery Challenge: 1. Wynnum North State High School 2. The Young Guns (Kingaroy State High... »
AirRobots anti fascism protest update
Anti fascism protestor’s that attended the demonstration against the BNP’s Red White and Blue festival are planning to request en masse, stills and video images taken by the quadrocopter. Alex Snowdon is submitting a Subject Access request under the Data Protection Act . The police are then required to supply any images in which he... »
Ascending Technologies and MIT Scoop $10,000 prize.
Ascending Technologies and MIT won 1st place at IARC2009 competition The AscTec/MIT team managed to develop the most advanced and robust indoor MAV between the announcement of the mission in 2008 and the competition in 2009. By doing so the team was able to finish the mission in the first year. This result had no... »