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14 June/July 2016 | Unmanned Systems Technology
Unmanned Global Systems (UGS) & Eurosatory
Monday 13 June – Friday 17 June
Paris, France
&
Farnborough International Airshow
Monday 11 July – Sunday 17 July
Farnborough Airport, UK
AUVSI UK Chapter – Networking Event
Tuesday 26 July
London, UK
UAS Summit & Expo
Monday 22 August – Wednesday 24 August
Grand Forks, ND, USA
InterDrone
Wednesday 7 September – Friday 9 September
Las Vegas, USA
Commercial UAV Show Asia
Tuesday 20 September – Wednesday 21 September
Singapore
Age of Drones Expo
Friday 7 October – Saturday 8 October
Dortmund, Germany
DRONE Berlin Exhibition
Friday 14 October – Saturday 15 October
Berlin, Germany
Commercial UAV Show
Wednesday 19 October – Thursday 20 October
London, UK
Unmanned Systems Defense
Tuesday 25 October – Thursday 27 October
Arlington, VA, USA
Commercial UAV Expo
Monday 31 October – Wednesday 2 November
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Unmanned Systems Canada
Tuesday 1 November – Thursday 3 November
Edmonton, Canada
Drone World Expo
Tuesday 15 November – Wednesday 16 November
San Jose, CA, USA
Unmanned World
Monday 28 November – Wednesday 30 November
Doha, Qatar
International Drone Expo
Friday 9 December – Saturday 10 December
Los Angeles, CA, USA
XPONENTIAL – AUVSI USA
Monday 8 May – Thursday 11 May 2017
Dallas, TX, USA
UST diary
Platform one
Sagetech, maker of what it says are
the world’s smallest transponders,
announced its next-generation of units,
the MX range, at the Xponential show
in May. Sagetech’s Jim Davis remarked
that thousands of the existing XP
range have been sold, but increased
regulatory oversight of drones now
demands greater assurances of safety.
The range will include models
certified by the FAA, as well as the US
DoD, to a military specification known
as AIMS Mark XIIA, a Mode 5-capable
transponder that will soon be required
for aircraft used by NATO.
The MX line-up includes ADS-B in
and out plus support for two antennae,
normally top and bottom of the craft for
full antenna pattern coverage.
An MX unit is 3.3 x 2.5 x 0.75 in, and
weighs 5.3 oz. It comes as standard
with RS-232. RS-422, and Ethernet
interfaces for integration with onboard
avionics and, like its forebear, has an
integrated pressure sensor and altitude
encoder.
Safety-certified transponders unveiled
Communications