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Cassini Spacecraft Successfully Completes Close Flyby of Saturn's Moon

NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus today, passing 30 miles (49 kilometers) above the moon's south polar region at approximately 8:22 a.m. PDT (11:22 a.m. EDT).

30 Oct 2015

Passion for Robotics Turns into Co-Op Job

Bryan Culver ‘17 came to Kettering University in search of an interactive engineering experience similar to his high school career in FIRST Robotics (FRC) and Vex Robotics (VRC).

30 Oct 2015

Contextual Robotics Institute Launched at UC San Diego

The Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego have launched the Contextual Robotics Institute to develop safe and useful robotics systems.

30 Oct 2015

Raytheon to Continue Mission Support for USAF's Distributed Common Ground System

Raytheon Company will continue mission support for the U.S. Air Force's Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) under a new $393 million contract.

29 Oct 2015

Insitu and BNSF Partner to Conduct Beyond Visual Line of Sight Railway Monitoring with UAS

Launching at a tower site near Vaughn, New Mexico, Insitu accomplished the first commercial beyond visual line of sight operation with an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in the contiguous 48 states.

29 Oct 2015

UNISONO Communication Solution Enables Orbiting Space Station to Maintain Contact with Robots on a Planet

The international UNISONO project, which is coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has developed a communication solution that can allow orbiting space station in outer space to maintain uninterrupted contact with robots working on the surface of a planet.

29 Oct 2015

Drone World Expo to Offer Three Keynote Sessions

Next month’s long anticipated Drone World Expo will offer three keynote sessions, which will be open to all attendees. The two newly announced sessions are Drones For Good: Using UAS To Stop The Slaughter of Rhino and Elephants in Africa, scheduled for Wednesday, November 18th at 9:00 am; and the DWE Town Hall Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 17th at 3:45 pm.

29 Oct 2015

Dedrone Upgrades DroneTracker

Dedrone announced today that the world's leading professional system to battle the threat of unmanned domestic drones is getting an upgrade. The DroneTracker detects unmanned aircraft and guards against spying, smuggling, potential terrorist attacks and invasions of personal privacy.

28 Oct 2015

PrecisionHawk, Verizon, Harris and DigitalGlobe Complete Testing for Drone Operations

PrecisionHawk, Verizon and DigitalGlobe Inc. today announced the successful completion of initial testing of high-performance airspace services for consumer and enterprise drones.

27 Oct 2015

Aeryon Labs Closes $60 Million Investment from Summit Partners

Aeryon Labs Inc., the premier manufacturer of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and mission control software, today announced that it has closed a $60 million investment from Summit Partners.

26 Oct 2015