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FAA Awards SMART Air Traffic Contract to Air Space Intelligence, Beating Palantir and Thales
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a 12-year, $875 million contract to Air Space Intelligence to build the predictive air traffic management software it has been developing in stealth for the better part of a year. The Boston startup beat two…
Young Touts Indiana FAA Test Site At Spray Drone Field Day While The Aircraft On The Tarmac Stay Chinese
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close…
Insta360 Luna Ultra Review: I Tested One of 2026’s Most Exciting Cameras in Alaska
What makes the Insta360 Luna Ultra so exciting isn’t the fact that you can pull off this face plate and have full remote control and a view of what the camera’s seeing. It’s so much more than that. But first,…
GoPro Mission 1 Pro vs DJI Osmo Action 6: The Ways DJI Still Wins
You might be surprised to learn that there are a couple of ways the Action 6 still beats the GoPro Mission 1 Pro, but let’s go test, compare, and find out exactly what those ways are. And just so we’re…
MIT and Penn Open-Source MIGHTY, a Drone Motion Planner That Cuts Out Six-Figure Commercial Software
Researchers at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania have released MIGHTY, an open-source motion planner that lets drones react to obstacles in milliseconds using only onboard sensors and compute. The system, detailed in a paper accepted to IEEE Robotics and…
Alaska Drone Module Tracks Spot Fires To Contain Sawmill Creek Blaze At 14.8 Acres
The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP) used its Unmanned Aerial Systems Module to identify hot spots and spot fires across the Gerstle River during the Sawmill Creek Fire, helping ground crews achieve 100 percent containment four days…
HoverAir X1 Pro Max Tips: How I Capture Cinematic Shots While Hiking in Alaska
The HoverAir X1 Pro Max is kind of a ridiculously good little drone, especially if you want a super easy way to just capture great shots of yourself hiking, biking, or maybe walking along a not-so-tropical beach. You can just…
Insta360 Luna First Look: Co-Engineered With Leica, This Might Be the Most Exciting Camera of 2026
This is the Insta360 Luna, and it’s been co-engineered with Leica. I think this might be one of the most exciting product releases of 2026, and I want to talk about why. But first, you need to know a couple…
NOAA’s New Ocean Drone Can Replace A Lost Weather Buoy
NOAA announced a new uncrewed surface vehicle for its research fleet, and the pitch is simple. It’s solar-powered, self-propelled, small enough to trailer behind a truck, and built to loiter at sea for months. Engineers at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental…
FAA Picks Palantir, Thales, and Airspace Intelligence to Build AI That Predicts Flight Conflicts Two Hours Out
The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing an AI-powered air traffic management tool that would let controllers deconflict flight paths up to two hours before a collision risk emerges, according to reporting from The Air Current published April 17, 2026.…
DJI Mini 5 Pro Review At Six Months: YouTuber Flying Filmmaker Says Camera Wins, Wind Still Hurts
YouTube creator Flying Filmmaker has published a six-month verdict on the DJI Mini 5 Pro, and his conclusion is blunt: if a pilot wants the best sub-250g drone on the market, this is the one to buy. His review video…
Jeven Dovey Crashes Mavic 4 Pro in Sport Mode on Eastern Sierras Overland Trip
Adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey destroyed a DJI Mavic 4 Pro on the second morning of a three-day overland shoot in California’s Eastern Sierras, flying in Sport mode with obstacle avoidance disabled when the drone hit a tree and tore the…