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October 11, 2018

AMA Drone Report 10.11.18: MultiGP/DRL Join Up, Hurricane Warning, EAA Supports AMA

Also: Airspace Authorization Expire?, MOSAIC Proposal, New LAANC Providers, FAA Targets UAS Violators

The 2018 MultiGP Drone Racing Championship and 2019 DRL Swatch Tryouts eSports Tournament will be held together in Las Vegas, Nevada over the weekend of February 8-10, 2019. The competitions merge real-life drone racing with an eSport drone racing tournament with the best pilots in the world meeting to compete. For the first time ever, the winner of the MultiGP Drone Racing Championship will be offered a contract for the upcoming 2019 DRL season, airing on ESPN. While Hurricane Michael was bearing down on those of us in the south, the FAA took a sharp tone right from the get-go by warning drone owners and operators that they could be subject to significant fines that could

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Close Call -- Soyuz Launch Aborted After Liftoff

A Truly Risky Failure Appears To Have Been Sucessfully Countered

A Russian launch to the ISS, carrying a Russian and American astronaut, was aborted early in the launch phase, but has resulted in the safe landing and recovery of both crewmen. Few astronauts will argue that a failure early in the launch phase is one of their worst nightmares, and for first time NASA Astronaut Nick Hague, this very short first rocket excursion had to be a stunning disappointment. NASA has already made an initial statement, "The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchi

Dual-Mode Ramjet/Scramjet Designed For Mach 5 And Higher New dual-mode ramjet/scramjet (DMRJ) engine successfully tested over a wider operating range than previously demonstrated, - Successful testing brings our nation one step closer to developing hypersonic aircraft capable of conventional takeoff and landing, - Aerojet Rocketdyne has been a leader in developing hypersonic propulsion technologies for more than 30 years.

Teal Group Releases Industry Forecast At Satellite Innovation Conference

NewSpace has been described as both a movement and a philosophy, based on the idea of commercializing space – both in Earth orbit and beyond, reports Teal Group. "For me, it's simply private entrepreneurship finally arriving en masse and starting to take hold of an industry that has been way too complacent and conservative for decades," said Marco Cáceres, Teal Group's Senior Space Analyst and its Director of Space Studies, whose NewSpace forecast coincided here with the first exhibition day of Satellite Innovation 2018 Silicon Valley.