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August 30, 2018

AMA Drone Report 08.30.18: DJI Mavic 2, Win A P-51 Flt, UAS4STEM

Also: Drone Injury, Autonomous Drone Delivery, Drone Shuts Down Firefighting, Australian Forestry

DJI has introduced two additions to its Mavic series: Mavic 2 Pro, with an integrated Hasselblad camera, and the Mavic 2 Zoom, the first foldable consumer drone with optical zoom capability. The Mavic 2 incorporates the folding design of the Mavic Pro. The Mavic 2 has new gimbal-stabilized cameras and advanced features like Hyperlapse and ActiveTrack and offers a flight time of up to 31 minutes. The Mavic 2 Pro is the first drone with an integrated Hasselblad camera and houses a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 10-bit Dlog-M color profile. Powered by a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, the Mavic 2 Zoom is DJI’s first foldable consumer drone with zoom, combining two-times optical zoom (24-48mm)

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The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Elects New Chairman And Leadership

Taber MacCallum, Co-Founder And Chief Technology Officer Of World View Enterprises, Is The New Chairman

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) has announced that Taber MacCallum, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of World View Enterprises, will serve as the new Chairman of the Board of CSF.

Al Yah 3 GEOStar-3 Spacecraft Achieves Orbit With Electric Propulsion

Aerojet Rocketdyne and Northrop Grumman together recently achieved a significant milestone with the successful completion of electric propulsion orbit acquisition operations on the Al Yah 3 GEOStar-3 spacecraft. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s XR-5 Hall Thruster system operated for more than 600 hours (over 25 days of firing) to propel the spacecraft to the intended orbit, which aided recovery from a launch insertion anomaly.