{"id":6430,"date":"2019-07-15T00:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terra-drone.net\/global\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:45:02","slug":"c-astral-participates-in-demonstrations-to-help-europe-set-rules-for-drone-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/2019\/07\/15\/c-astral-participates-in-demonstrations-to-help-europe-set-rules-for-drone-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"C-Astral participates in demos to help Europe set rules for drone deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The demonstration was done as part of the consortium which aims to fast-track commercial drone deliveries and deployment across Europe<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6431\" src=\"https:\/\/web-corp.terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c-astral_1.png\" alt=\"Europe drone deliveries\" width=\"825\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium, July 16, 2019 \u2013<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-astral.com\">C-Astral<\/a> is announcing its successful participation in the first practical SAFIR flight and integration tests at DronePort, Sint-Truiden, Belgium. SAFIR, a SESAR Joint Undertaking demonstrator project lead by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terra-drone.net\/global\/\">Terra Drone<\/a>-affiliated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifly.aero\/\">Unifly<\/a>, is a large-scale demonstration project aiming to showcase the economic viability of drone use in industrial environments and facilitate drone deliveries across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of SAFIR, C-Astral was tasked to take off and perform high-tension line mapping. During this process, the company was also made to perform deconflicting by rerouting the drone flight and alternatively choosing a safe place to hover until the geofencing area disappeared. Post that, the drone was to continue the high-tension line mapping.<\/p>\n<p>During these operations, the radio communications were tested by the Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) and C-Astral obtained the permission to use the integrated communication links in the Belgian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Flight tests for the homologation of the C-Astral system by the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority were performed as well. C-Astral\u2019s software team also successfully tested the integration of command, communications, control, and planning software with the drone traffic management system developed by Unifly.<\/p>\n<p>The SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organizations, aims to demonstrate integrated drone traffic management for a broad range of drone operations globally. The goal of the SAFIR project is to contribute to the EU regulatory process for drones and drive forward the deployment of interoperable, harmonized, and standardized drone services across Europe. More about the project can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sesarju.eu\/projects\/safir\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6432\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6432\" src=\"https:\/\/web-corp.terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot-2019-06-20-at-11.54.49-1.png\" alt=\"Europe drone deliveries\" width=\"580\" height=\"377\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flight path for the flight and integration tests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6433\" style=\"width: 718px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6433\" src=\"https:\/\/web-corp.terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/logos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"208\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This U-Space project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union&#8217;s Connection Europe Facility (CEF) program under grant agreement SJU\/LC\/344-CTR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u25a0<\/strong><strong> About Terra Drone Corporation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Established in 2016, Terra Drone Corporation has quickly become one of the world\u2019s largest industrial drone solution companies employing over 500 drone industry professionals. The company\u2019s head office is located in Tokyo, Japan, and more than 25 branches are spread globally throughout Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, and Oceania. Terra Drone provides innovative enterprise drone services for oil and gas, utilities, renewables, mining, construction, and GIS sectors, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Terra Drone provides end-to-end solutions specializing in each sector by using high-performance hardware, cutting-edge software and customizable drone traffic management systems (UTM). The company actively invests in UAV technology providers to help them promote their products and services in the global market.<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest news and information about Terra Drone, visit the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/terradronecorp\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerraDroneHQ\">Twitter <\/a>handles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>For more information, contact:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terra Drone Co.<\/p>\n<p>Tel: +81(0)3-6319-7193<\/p>\n<p>Email: info.en@terra-drone.co.jp<\/p>\n<p>Terra Drone Website: https:\/\/www.terra-drone.net\/global\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demonstration was done as part of the consortium which aims to fast-track commercial drone deliveries and deployment across Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[301,302,304,306,308,310,263,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra-drone.net\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}