NASA Launched The Final Testing Phase For New Drone Traffic System
NASA – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently initiated the final testing phase for a traffic management system for drones.
Drones have been a popular gadget for quite some time. In the past few years, tech developers have seen many potential practical uses for drones.
NASA, for one, sees the potential of utilizing drones as a delivery vehicle. They tested the drones in cities for the first time letting the drones fly beyond the controller’s sight.
Businesses are looking to use drones to be released above busy streets, buildings and other vehicles.
In Reno, downtown area, several drones took flight simultaneously for a flight test for the future possibility of the unmanned aircrafts being available for commercial use. Especially in delivering small packages, food and medical supplies.
David Korsmeyer, associate director of research and technology from Ames Research Center by NASA (Mountain View, California) expressed his thoughts about the recent launch in a statement:
“This activity is the latest and most technical challenge we have done with unmanned aerial systems.”
A self-directing drone took flight last Tuesday off of a five-story casino’s rooftop and flew to another spot across the street. It flew with built-in sensors programmed for gusty winds before it came back and landed close to the center of its launchpad.
Other test drones, equipped with global positioning satellite (GPS) flew towards each other just in the same height as the city’s street lights without colliding. Tracking systems were installed to the drones that are synched with NASA computers.
This is according to an article from ABC News.
Huge companies such as FedEx and Amazon are looking to use the drone technology to deliver their products to the costumers by 2020.
Chris Wallach, one of the people behind the test flights, also the executive director of the Nevada Institute of Autonomous Systems apparently went beyond expectations with the last test. He said:
“When we began this project four years ago, many of us wouldn’t have thought we’d be standing here today flying UAVs with advanced drone systems off high-rise buildings.”
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.
