NASA plans air traffic control system for drones

By Juha Saarinen on Jun 15, 2015 10:18AM

'New era of aviation' requires management systems for safety, privacy.

US NASA plans to develop a control system for drone traffic as commercial usage of the unmanned craft becomes increasingly popular. The agency said there was an imminent need to keep up with commercial drone deployments like those already being prepared by tech giants Amazon and Google. Las...

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