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Every summer, a thick green menace takes over Florida’s largest lake. Embry-Riddle researchers are about to send drones after it. Florida’s Biggest Lake Has a Toxic Summer Tenant Lake Okeechobee is 730 square miles of freshwater sitting at the heart of South Florida’s ecosystem. It supplies water for agriculture, feeds the Everglades, and supports some…
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage of the DJI Ban.
A company by the name of PowerLight Technologies, out of Kent, Washington, may have found the secret to the age-old war between UAS and batteries: laser-powered drones. No, I’m not kidding. PowerLight claims to have created a way to power long-endurance fixed-wing drones by using ground-based lasers that can charge them up to (nearly) one…
Portuguese drone unicorn Tekever is deepening its footprint in Ukraine, betting on local engineers, local partnerships, and battlefield hardened AI systems to anchor its long term presence in the country’s defense tech ecosystem, as Kyiv Post reported. The move signals more than symbolic support. It reflects a strategic shift toward embedding Western drone companies directly…
t the center of the LEAPTIC Cube is a bold decision that immediately separates it from most tiny action cameras. Dreame went with a 1 over 1.3 inch
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week. DJI gets FCC approval for a new Avata 360. NASA is testing new drone navigation software in Death Valley for future Mars missions. And Texas clarifies that using drones for fishing is illegal under federal law. Let’s get to it.…
NASA has been busy preparing the next generation of autonomous explorers, and this year that meant flying drones across the scorching dunes of Death Valley, a place so unforgiving that even your sunscreen wants sunscreen. The agency needed terrain as bland and empty as the Martian sand fields that once confused the Ingenuity helicopter, so…
Ukraine has begun mass production of its domestically developed Octopus interceptor drone system, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Friday, just hours after Russia launched one of the war’s deadliest drone attacks on Kyiv. The announcement marks a critical escalation in Ukraine’s efforts to build cost-effective air defenses against Russia’s relentless Shahed drone campaign. The…
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