UAS

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Identify, track, capture

February 25, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories robotics experts are working on a way to intercept enemy unmanned aircraft systems midflight. They successfully tested their concept indoors with a swarm of four unmanned aircraft systems that flew in unison, each carrying o…

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: counter UAS, drones, MARCUS, robotics, UAS, unmanned aircraft systems

Balloons and drones and clouds; oh, my!

August 14, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before. In addition to providing more precise data for weather...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: arctic, atmospheric, atmospheric radiation measurement, climate modeling, climate science, clouds, distributed temperature sensor, mixed-phase clouds, Oliktok Point, UAS, weather balloon

Dave Novick examines an octocopter against a background of grey clouds

Warning Area in Arctic airspace to aid research and exploration

August 6, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 700-mile-long airspace that stretches north from Oliktok Point — the northernmost point of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay — to about 400 miles short of the North Pole has been put under the stewardship of Sandia National Laboratories by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal...

Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water, Military / Defense

Topics: arctic, Arctic Shield, ARM, drones, Oliktok Point, restricted area, UAS, warning area