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September 27, 2018

AMA Drone Report 09.27.18: AMA v FAA, Mexico's Tough Drone Regs, Florence Response

Also: Government To ‘Disable’ Drones?, GoPro Karma Upgrade, UAVs v Alzheimer's, State Farm Waiver

Despite the amazing and hard-fought efforts of the AMA and other pro-aviation organizations, the House has passed the FAA Reauthorization bill -- with language that concerns AMA a great deal. The House passed the bill Wednesday 398-23 and is expected to also pass a short-term extension carrying the works through October 7 in the event that the Senate can’t get its act together before the September 30 deadline. However; knowledgeable insiders expect the Senate to pass the long-term bill with strong, bipartisan support. While many damaging provisions fought by the General and Commercial aviation community were killed off, a number of severe restrictions that are coun

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Ariane 5 - 100 And Counting Delivers Two Payloads Following Milestone Launch

Delivers Two Payloads Following Milestone Launch

An Ariane 5, on its milestone 100th launch, has delivered the Horizons-3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 telecom satellites into their planned orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 22:38 GMT Tuesday from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The mission lasted about 42 minutes.

The Gateway To Serve As A Staging Point And Hub For Human Missions To The Moon Or Mars

The European Space Agency (ESA) has commissioned Airbus for two studies for possible European involvement in the future human base in lunar orbit. The Gateway, previously known as the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) or Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G), is a project involving the US, Russian, Canadian, Japanese and European space agencies (NASA, Roscosmos, CSA, JAXA and ESA).

Will Be Presented On NASA TV And Streamed On The Agency's Website

NASA's newest class of astronaut trainees will join agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine Thursday to talk about their experiences in the training program, hopes for future missions, and more, in a live episode of Watch This Space. The one-hour program will air at 10 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website.