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Galileo Group Completes UAV Flights for NASA Environmental Project

Galileo Group, Inc., announced today that it has completed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations and hyperspectral data collections for a series of missions supporting a NASA sponsored project to map sea grass beds and coral reefs in the Florida keys.

28 Nov 2012

New Report on Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Defense and Security

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Defense and Security: Global Markets and Technologies Outlook - 2013-2020" report to their offering.

28 Nov 2012

Lockheed Martin Develops Portable Military Defense Laser System against Unmanned Aerial Systems

Lockheed Martin today announced that it has successfully demonstrated a portable, ground-based military laser system in a series of tests against representative airborne targets.

28 Nov 2012

Consumer Drone Company Acquires Majority Share in EPFL Start-Up senseFly

The French company Parrot, world leader in wireless peripherals for mobile phones and already in the market for consumer drones, acquired for 5 million Swiss Francs a majority share in senseFly, a start-up from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL.

27 Nov 2012

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Photograph Risky Regions of the Ocean Floor

Underwater robots just got smarter. Engineers at Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have developed a system that allows autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to better anticipate obstacles in their path, enabling them to safely photograph even treacherous, distant reaches of the ocean floor.

27 Nov 2012

ESA’s Mars Orbiter Relays Rocknest3 ChemCam Images from NASA’s Curiosity Rover

For the first time, ESA’s Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface. The data included detailed images of ‘Rocknest3’ and were received by ESA’s deep-space antenna in Australia.

27 Nov 2012

Hughes Satellite-Based Airborne Communications Solutions for Unmanned Airborne Platforms

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) will showcase its highly innovative range of satellite-based airborne communications solutions at the 14th annual Global MilSatCom Conference and Exhibition, which will be held at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre, London from 27-29 November 2012.

21 Nov 2012

Garmin to Supply Avionics Suite for New Optionally Piloted Aircraft

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that Northrop Grumman Corporation has selected Garmin to supply the avionics suite for the new Firebird, an optionally piloted vehicle (OPV) designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

20 Nov 2012

Northrop Grumman, US Navy Perform Ground Testing on Second Triton Unmanned Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy have added a second Triton unmanned aircraft to ground testing efforts in late September – part of an initial step in preparation for flight operations.

20 Nov 2012

CU-Boulder’s Remote Sensing Instrument Package Delivered for Mars Spacecraft Integration

A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the University of Colorado Boulder, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., for spacecraft integration.

19 Nov 2012