by admin | Apr 2, 2018 | Client News, Company News, Industry News
FlightHorizon COMMANDER has been selected by the Commercial Supersonic Technology (CST) 2018-2019 development program at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center to provide airspace situational awareness and detailed flight logging of research flights. FlightHorizon...
by admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Client News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems congratulates NASA and Lockheed Martin on the new low-boom supersonic aircraft, the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSSt), being selected by Popular Science Magazine as one of “The most impressive aerospace innovations of...
by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | Products, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizonX product was successfully used by NASA to complete its Quiet Supersonic Flight campaign (QSF18) near Galveston, Texas this week. The flights are a part of NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology program. FlightHorizonX was used...
by admin | Sep 25, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ special supersonic version of its airspace management system, FlightHorizonX, is currently being used by NASA in a series of flight tests to validate a new supersonic transponder and to explore sonic boom mitigation as part of a...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | Client News, Products, R&D, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace is developing a version of FlightHorizon GCS, currently dubbed “FlightHorizonX,” that has been modified to support enhanced ADS-B transponders designed for supersonic aircraft and spacecraft tracking by NASA Armstrong Flight Research...
by admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a new patent license agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) covering the use of radar in detect-and-avoid and unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems, including in the company’s FlightHorizon...
by admin | Feb 5, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a new license agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) extending the company’s existing detect-and-avoid and radar technology patent licenses to include military aviation applications. This new license...
by admin | May 6, 2019 | Events, Products, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent DronePort Network Seminar “Unlocking the Potential in Your Community” produced by the DronePort Network as an AUVSI 2019 XPONENTIAL co-located event in Chicago, IL on April 29th. Vigilant...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is happy to share our 2018 Year-in-Review video, below. The company had an outstanding year with numerous milestones for our products, programs and flights. We are especially excited about the new beyond visual line-of-sight flights, NASA...
by admin | Jan 21, 2019 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace recently participated in the first unmanned aircraft flight under a new FAA certificate of authorization (COA) allowing for beyond visual line-of-sight flights within a 13-mile corridor based out of the Oklahoma State University Unmanned Aircraft...
by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Company News, R&D
A new NASA report profiles three projects in which the agency has used Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon software to (1) demonstrate detect-and-avoid capabilities to advance integration of unmanned aircraft into the US national airspace; (2) help in development...
by admin | Jun 1, 2018 | Events
We are honored to have been invited to speak at the 2018 Drone Focus conference in Fargo, North Dakota in front of 500+ UAS industry professionals this past week. Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson took to the main stage on May 30, 2018 – the first day...
by admin | Jun 16, 2017
FlightHorizon Explainer video: Central Role of Safety Systems in Droneport Development - captions: From the video: Imagine a world in which drones travel freely throughout the US, inspecting vital bridges and pipelines, responding to emergencies, and delivering...
by admin | Dec 31, 2023 | Company News
As we reach the end of 2023, Vigilant Aerospace is taking a moment to reflect on what has been a historic period for the autonomous systems industry and a momentous year for the company. After waiting several years for signs that the UAS and AAM industry were reaching...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Events, Products, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO recently made a 30-minute presentation on testing onboard automatic detect-and-avoid systems for unmanned aircraft at the 2022 SAE AeroTech Conference in Pasadena, California. Titled “Developing and Testing Fully Onboard Automatic...
by admin | Nov 1, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented a brief online presentation discussing our participation in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) University Leadership Initiative (ULI) WindMap project lead by Oklahoma State University....
by admin | Aug 31, 2018 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent 2018 UAS Summit & Expo produced by UAS Magazine and held in Grand Forks, ND this past week. Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, presented “New Models for Integration of Unmanned Aircraft...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace is excited to announce that FlightHorizon is being used in a major research project conducted by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in conjunction with NASA Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida to measure the effect...
by admin | Jun 13, 2017
Papers & Presentations Testing and Evaluation of UTM Systems in a BVLOS EnvironmentTaylor Mitchell, Marc Hartman, Dane Johnson, Rakshit Allamraju, Jamey D. Jacob and Kraettli Epperson; 2020 AIAA Aviation Forum, June 2020. Link [PDF] Unmanned Traffic...
