Kongsberg Geospatial Improves BVLOS Drone Operations Safety with a “Horizonless Air Picture”
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Kongsberg Geospatial, Aireon and uAvionix to demonstrate the world’s first integration of Space-based and local ADS-B sensors to provide a fused airspace awareness picture for BVLOS UAS Operations.
A screenshot demonstrates how the IRIS UxS ground control station shows a mixture of real-time contacts from local sensors with near real-time contacts provided by a space-based data feed
“Complete awareness of the air picture in your mission space increasingly requires knowing what’s over the horizon for long range unmanned flights” OTTAWA, Ontario (PRWEB) January 27, 2021 Kongsberg Geospatial, developer of the TerraLens Geospatial SDK, uAvionix, creators of the PingStation® Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) transponder, and Aireon, developers of a space-based ADS-B network announc
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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has lifted restrictions which grounded the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
The US-made fleet was banned from Irish and European airspace
A Lion Air flight crashed shortly after take-off from Jakarta in October 2018, killing all 189 people on board.
While 157 people died - including Irish engineer Micheál Ryan - when an Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa in March 2019.
But following an EASA Airworthiness Directive, the planes can fly again.
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) also confirmed it is now in a position to lift the suspension of operations of the aircraft into and out of Irish airspace.
According to the EASA, the root cause of the accidents was traced to software known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which is intended to make the plane easier to handle.
However, the system was guided by only one “angle of attack” sensor, that kicked in repeatedly if that sensor malfunctioned, pushing the nose of the aircraft downward multiple times. In both accidents, pilots finally lost control of the aircraft, resulting in a crash.
The European regulators issued an “airworthiness directive” for the plane today after mandating a package of software upgrades, electrical wiring rework, maintenance checks, operation-manual updates, and pilot training.