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October 26, 2017

AMA Drone Report 10.26.17: Drone Integration Program, 2018 Allianz World Championship

Also: Kansas Town Allows Drones, Nano Drones, UAV Shooter Busted, Common Challenges, CA Firefighting

President Trump has directed SecTrans Elaine Chao to launch an initiative to safely test and validate advanced operations for drones in partnership with state and local governments in select jurisdictions. The UAS Integration Pilot Program implements a directive signed by the President, and the results will be used to accelerate the safe integration UAS into the national airspace and to realize the benefits of unmanned technology in our economy. The Drone Racing League (DRL) and The General Sport Authority (GSA) of Saudi Arabia have announced the 2018 DRL Allianz World Championship will take place in Saudi Arabia next September. The 2018 DRL Allianz World Championship will be the

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Gone West: Hall Of Fame Astronaut Paul Weitz

Was Spacecraft Commander On STS-6, The First Flight Of Challenger

NASA Astronaut Paul Weitz, who was first selected for the Astronaut Corps in 1966, passed away Monday, Oct. 23 at his home in Flagstaff, AZ at the age of 85.

Using A Model That More Realistically Simulates Atmospheric Conditions On Distant Planets

New NASA research is helping to refine our understanding of candidate planets beyond our solar system that might support life. “Using a model that more realistically simulates atmospheric conditions, we discovered a new process that controls the habitability of exoplanets and will guide us in identifying candidates for further study,” said Yuka Fujii of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, New York and the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, lead author of a paper on the research published in the Astrophysical Journal Oct. 17.