
Les drones solaires de Google pour connecter la planète, c'est fini...
La planète sera bien connectée, mais cela ne sera pas avec les drones de Google ! La firme de Mountain View vient d'abandonner son projet de drones solaires. Alphabet vient en effet de dévoiler que ce projet ne répondait pas aux attentes de l'entreprise, car il serait trop coûteux et trop complexe à mettre en place, c'est donc le projet Loon qui devrait connecter le monde. Google met fin à l'aventure des drones solaires pour connecter le monde Google travaillait sur deux proj

Foremost, seul lieu au Canada où les drones peuvent voler haut et loin
Le village de Foremost, dans le sud de l'Alberta, est devenu le seul lieu au Canada où les entreprises peuvent tester des drones à de très hautes altitudes et sur de très longues distances. La zone fait 2400 kilomètres carrés. Selon le président de la compagnie de formation de drones Canadian Unmanned, Sterling Cripps, elle est idéale pour les essais de drones car c’est « très plat, sans tours ni arbres et, surtout, avec peu de personnes » dans le secteur. Environ 500 résiden

Miss Universe Pageant ! No-fly zone over MOA
A no-fly zone for drones and helicopters will be strictly imposed by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) on Sunday and Monday over the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena, the venue for the 65th Miss Universe pageant. According to a notice to airmen issued late Friday, the no-fly zone covers the one-kilometer radius of MOA Arena, from surface to 3,000 feet. The ban will take effect from 11 a.m. of January 29 to 1 p.m. of January 30. CAAP deputy director general fo

IMechE launches student Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge 2017
Some of the most talented young engineers from the UK and overseas will compete to design and build the best Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) as part of the annual competition run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). The competition will see the young engineers develop their drones before taking on other teams, where they will be challenged to transport a package as accurately and rapidly as possible. “For organisations, this continues to be a remarkable opportu

Drones on the Farm: Agribotix Partners with senseFly, and Sentera Announces Real-Time NDVI Streaming
Advances have recently been made in agriculture with two new professional solutions. Agribotix has partnered with senseFly, while Sentera announced Real-Time NDVI video streaming with their new sensor. Agribotix is an agricultural intelligence company that provides easy-to-use drone-enabled technologies and services for precision agriculture. The company owns a subscription/cloud-based software – FarmLens – which processes photos taken during a flight, creating NDVI images to

Airbus Group and Local Motors Partnership enters Phase II
Las Vegas, 6th September 2016 – Airbus Group and Local Motors Inc. announced today the launch of the Phase II of their partnership during the InterDrone 2016 International Drone Conference and Exhibition held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This new phase will focus on building the Airbus Drone Services Platform (ADSP). The ADSP is a digital distribution platform for drone-based apps and services. Phase II is a continuation of the companies’ joint work together, which commenced in

From rescue operations to wedding ceremonies, Turkey uses drones for almost every occasion
The number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) actively used and registered with the Transportation Ministry has reached 8,349 as of the end o

Drone schools look to woo younger pilots for commercial jobs
SkySkopes, a Grand Forks company that employs unmanned aircraft pilots, is offering an online class for students as well as a separate fligh

Drone to monitor White Island
“While we have the volcano cams on the island, these are stationary and don’t give us the kind of rich data that a drone can. Since the erup

Textron pitches VTOL Shadow UAV to Australia
oth Australia and Sweden operate the older V1 variant of the UAV, but while Sweden is working under a sustainment contract that will keep th