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(Space.com) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans in 2028 to launch Skyfall, a mission that will send six small helicopters to the Red Planet aboard a spacecraft that uses nuclear electric propulsion.

(DEFCROS News) – The new, Web-based academy will train operators in numerous rotary unmanned aircraft system (UAS) skills and platforms.

(PR Newswire) – California-based ANELLO Photonics and Australian company Q-CTRL are developing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation system that works in environments with degraded, jammed, or unavailable GPS service.

(KSHB) – Officials at Kansas City International Airport (KMCI) in Missouri are using drones and artificial intelligence (AI) to capture images that can improve the city’s ability to assess storm damage to local homes. Eventually, they want to use the technology to predict severe weather before it happens.

VAI brought together nearly 200 members from across the vertical aviation community for a Mar. 23 member roundtable on the operational and safety impacts of recent changes to US airspace rules.

The company’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility in Latrobe is now fully operational and conducting final preparations for the delivery of Airbus H145 D3s to Life Flight Network and CareFlite.

The delivery of an experimental fly-by-wire Sikorsky UH-60MX Black Hawk to the US Army represents the capstone achievement of the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program.

A team from the OEM showed how 5G cellular infrastructure can double as real-time drone detection using a prototype system known as NetSense. The system turns commercial networks into an added layer of safety capable of identifying aerial intrusions in crowded or complex environments.

The agency is requesting public comments by Apr. 22 on its plans to collect information from airport/droneport operators, OEMs, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) vendors, and other stakeholders. The FAA will use the data to catalog current and planned droneport planning, design, and infrastructure needs in the United States and identify which airports are integrating UAS operations.