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On Tuesday, officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the start of a 24-hour flight for the unpiloted Global Hawk aircraft, a robotic plane that can fly nearly twice as high as commercial airliners.The Global Hawk, which was originally designed to complete high-altitude, high-endurance recon and intelligence, is now being used by NASA to help scientists study the atmosphere. During Tuesday's flight, the craft soared over the Pacific Ocean while being...
NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean. The flight was the first of five scheduled for this month's Global Hawk Pacific, or GloPac, mission to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet -- roughly twice as high as a commercial airliner -- and as far as 11,000 nautical miles, which is half the...
ARLINGTON, Va., April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Logos Technologies, Inc. announced that it successfully demonstrated its Light Weight Expeditionary Airborne Persistent Surveillance (LEAPS) system during the Operational Adaptation Developmental Test-02 in Swansboro, NC. LEAPS development is funded by the Office of Naval Research to provide a light-weight, persistent-surveillance capability for the Navy and Marine Corps. The LEAPS system is the most recent Logos effort in persistent surveillance, an...
With funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, engineers at Boston University are working on a theoretical approach to improve automated mission control and decision-making for fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles.While unmanned systems currently rely on the automation of low-level functions, such as navigation, stabilization and trajectory, operating these systems is still quite labor-intensive for Air Force pilots given the variable flying conditions experienced by UAVs.The BU...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday that rival drone programs from nations like Iran are not a threat to coveted US drone technologies, which he hopes he can export to allies, despite legal setbacks, according to a Reuters report. Testifying at a Senate hearing, Gates said it should be in the US's best interest to try to help friendly nations get drone technology, despite the limitations on exports imposed by an international agreement. Gates added that other countries are very...
SAN LOUIS OBISPO, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. James "Jay" McConville has been named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AeroMech Engineering, Inc. (AME). The announcement was made today by Jesse May, President and CEO of Chandler/May, Inc., the parent company of AME. Thomas Akers, founder and current CEO, will serve as AME's Chairman of the Board. In making the announcement Mr. May said: "Jay is the right executive to move AME into the promising future it has secured due...
For Delivery of Advanced Mission Management Systems For Unmanned Maritime Aircraft Program PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced that it has received a contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide the Advanced Mission Management System (AMMS) for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) program in the amount of approximately $25 million. The BAMS UAS will provide the U.S....
New technology that enables aerial vehicles to plan and verify missions could mean there is less need for military personnel to conduct dangerous surveillance operations in war zones.Developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), the sophisticated autonomous computer framework - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground. It would also make surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The EPSRC (Engineering...
MCKINNEY, Texas, Feb. 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) airborne targeting system whose video imagery helps soldiers, intelligence analysts and commanders in the field make critical operating decisions recently exceeded 750,000 hours of flight. The Multi-Spectral Targeting System employs a full-motion video camera for long-range surveillance and high-altitude acquisition, tracking and laser designation from a manned or unmanned aircraft. In October 2008, C4ISR Journal...
Reporters are invited to a media day in April to observe the first environmental science mission of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.The Global Hawk Pacific 2010 mission, or GloPac, will involve a series of long-duration flights by the autonomously operated aircraft. The flights will travel over the Pacific Ocean south to the equator, west past Hawaii, and north into the Arctic. Ten instruments on the aircraft...
