Internet related News · 2015-07-25

Google to join Verizon, others in helping NASA build ATC for drones

The drones are coming, the drones are coming. Well, this Website has nothing to do with drones, but since Google has just shown great interest in being part of the drone air traffic system that NASA plans to set up, & since Net companies such as Facebook have said they plan to bring the Internet into our homes using drones, here we go.
The search engine major will join some of the biggest companies in technology, communications and aviation — including Amazon.com Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. & Harris Corp. — in trying to create an air-traffic control system to prevent mid-air collisions.

Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones – Bloomberg Business – Bloomberg

http://news.google.com Jul 24, 2015 

Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet, has set its sights on doing the same for the flocks of commercial drones expected to someday …

 

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Google, NASA work together to design drone air-traffic-control system — RT

http://news.google.com Jul 24, 2015 

Drones are the way of the future, and ‒ rather than let the air be clogged with unruly, unregulated unmanned robots ‒ the government is seeking to work with the private …

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SiliconBeat – Quoted: Google, Amazon and air-traffic control for drones – SiliconBeat

http://news.google.com Jul 24, 2015 

Dave Vos, head of Google’s Project Wing, says the company has no intention of seizing control of the efforts to establish an air-traffic control system for drones …

 

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BACKGROUND

NASA building air-traffic control for low-flying drones – GCN.com

http://news.google.com Jun 25, 2015 

On June 25, a hobbyist drone forced the grounding of a fixed-wing aircraft fighting the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, according to a tweet by the California Department …

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