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Spinoff story
Drone Traffic Forecasts Show Commercial Skies of the Future
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
As Ames Research Center worked with the Federal Aviation Administration to craft regulations for future drone traffic, the team ran into a problem: it needed data on drone flights that wouldn’t exist until regulations were already in place. Under Ames SBIR contracts, Rockville, Maryland-based Intelligent Automation Inc. created a drone traffic forecast by contacting scores of companies and agencies which, they were surprised to learn, already had drone operations planned. The enormous dataset is now commercially available to anyone planning drone operations.