(Space Daily) Satellite Navigation Steers Unmanned Micro-Planes

By , Posted 09/02/10

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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 02, 2010
An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA's Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion. The German start-up company MAVinci has developed the new system that uses autonomous micro-air vehicles (MAVs) with a wingspan of less than tw