NASA Systems Available to Upgrade Your Drone’s Abilities













Looking for ways to upgrade your UAVs without building tons of new hardware? We’ve picked out some useful NASA systems that can unlock new abilities for your swarm, allowing them to do more work for you without you having to do more work on them.



Keep drones from crash landing in someone’s living room

With drone package delivery on the horizon, UAVs need a system that can keep them from making a crash landing in unsafe spots (like a roof or a busy street) without the need of a human pilot. Enter NASA’s Safe2Ditch system, which can be easily added to existing UAVs. It provides the drone with an automatic ability to find the safest place to land in case of an emergency.



Track drones in areas without GPS access

GPS navigation is ingrained so much in daily life, it can often be taken for granted. Unfortunately, GPS isn’t available everywhere, but that doesn’t have to stop your UAVs from getting around. The Autonomous Positioning and Navigation Network can help you keep up with drones by allowing them to navigate based on the position of other drones in the fleet. Plus, improvements to the network architecture may be as simple as a software update.



Easy solution to hush up noisy drones

Community noise pollution from busy, buzzing drones is a big barrier that is keeping UAVs from becoming the new normal in package delivery. But, thanks to this NASA tech that tweaks the position of the propellers, drone noise is significantly decreased. This tech can also be easily added to drones with very little additional hardware.



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