Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 a.m. Pacific time today, concluding a 469-day experimental test mission. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on March 5, 2011.
UAS
Second X-47B at Pax River
It was not an ordinary morning at Pax River when a large flatbed truck hauling the fighter-sized X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) entered through the naval air station’s gate.
MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS)
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) unveiled the first U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) in a ceremony today at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing facility.
MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) for U.S. Navy
The unmanned aircraft community received its first glimpse of the U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) during an unveiling ceremony June 14 at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing plant.
Denmark will buy Puma AE UAS from AeroVironment
The Danish Acquisition and Logistics Organization today announced at Eurosatory it has awarded AeroVironment a firm fixed-price order of $9.6 million to supply the Danish Armed Forces with the company’s Puma AE small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). AeroVironment was selected following a competitive evaluation.
Successfull tests of Patroller UAS
Sagem has just successfully completed a new series of test flights of its long-endurance Patroller drone system, in a multi-sensor, multi-mission configuration.