The two parties want to make sure the drones don't run into anything, fall out of the sky or endanger people's lives.

In Aug. 2024, a team of NASA researchers and partners gathered in Missoula, to test new drone-based technology for localized forecasting, or micrometeorology. Researchers attached wind sensors to ...

Yasmin Arbab, a research associate at NASA’s Ames Research Center, tests a prototype device designed for firefighting drone operators. The technology shown here will continue to be tested by ...

NASA is testing its portable airspace management system or PAMS to make sure drones and remotely piloted ... They hope fire crews can start using their new technology out in the field soon.

The ACERO technology will provide that air boss capability ... California, and two small NASA drones. Flying as if responding to a wildfire scenario, the Overwatch aircraft connected with two ...

"This activity is the latest and most technical challenge we have done with unmanned aerial systems," said David Korsmeyer, associate director of research and technology at NASA's Ames Research Center ...

Just as NASA breakthroughs evolved into commercial ... across the nation are also doing their part to refine drone technology. Solutions to drone dilemmas are needed now, because technology ...

Hydrogen fuel cell powered drone experimentation goes back decades in the United States, beginning with NASA’s 1994 Helios prototype. The Office of Naval Research has also invested in related ...

Drones have become ubiquitous on battlefields over the last few years, but they aren't simply for surveillance and reconnaissance anymore. Technology has allowed drones to be enhanced with a ...

WILKINSON — One of the first times Aaron Collins operated a drone, trying to implement the new technology into a farming business, the drone quickly crashed. “The first time we had it we had ...

NASA researchers conducted initial validation of a new airspace management system designed to enable crews to use aircraft to fight and monitor wildland fires 24 hours a day, even during ...