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January 03, 2019

AMA Drone Report 01.03.19: Drone Paranoia, Drone Advisory Group, SkyPixel-DJI

Also: Australia 'Crack Down', U.S. Forest Service, Insurer Not Liable For Drone, False Drone Blame-Game

Our top story today comes out of the UK’s London Gatwick Airport. Where details of drone sightings seems to get stranger by the day. It all started on the evening of December 20th--when the runway at London's Gatwick airport was closed due to drone sightings by airport staff members. Police arrested two suspects on the suspicion of disrupting civil aviation-but were later forced to release the two after an investigation found they did not have enough evidence to hold them. Despite numerous reports there is little evidence that a drone caused this... The FAA has posted a notice in the Federal Register soliciting qualified candidates to serve on the Drone Advisory Committe

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Sugar Is Sweet, Essential To Life - And It's Probably In Deep Space

A Team Of NASA Astrophysicists Were Able To Create DNA's Sugar In Laboratory Conditions That Mimic Interstellar Space

When we think of sugar, it’s in the form of a holiday sweet or a reason to head back to gym after New Year’s Eve — we don’t usually think of the complex varieties that form the structural backbones of our very genetic code. And we certainly don’t think of sugar floating around in the vast darkness of space.

Orbit Insertion Completed On New Year's Eve From Earth's Perspective

At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters – and broke a space exploration record. The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.