Fast Company got to spend the day with NASA’s Ikhana–a converted Predator UAV which fights forest fires and tests experimental tech. It can even help UPS and FedEx use robots to deliver your ...

Ikhana, which according to NASA's website is a modified MQ-9 Predator B unmanned aircraft system (UAS), was acquired in 2006 to "support Earth science missions and advanced aeronautical technology ...

NASA's Ikhana UAV—a modified Predator B aircraft used for civil research—is remotely piloted from a control station at Dryden. Called upon by the National Interagency Fire Center and working ...

NASA says Tuesday's flight over California moves the U.S. closer to normalizing unmanned aircraft operations in ... version of the Air Force's MQ-9 Predator B that is 36 feet (11 meters) long ...

large unmanned systems like Ikhana have required a chase plane when flying in commercial airspace. The Ikhana is a General Atomics MQ-9 Predator B—the canonical military drone—that NASA ...

The inventory of research aircraft at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center has grown by one with the acquisition of a Predator B unmanned aircraft system adapted for civilian missions.

The firefighting team bat t l ing the recent California wildfires got a helping hand from Ikhana, a Predator B UAV from General Atomics in San Diego (www.ga.com) and modified by NASA with an IR ...

NASA is has developed a new sense-and-avoid system that will let unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV ... also known as the Predator B, which is an updated, larger, and more powerful Predator drone ...

But the Global Hawk has to work around limited control frequencies -- which is why most NASA UAV flights are in the early morning. NASA ...

“NASA is glad to see that UAVs are being ... The Altair, a high-altitude civil derivative of GA-ASI’s Predator B military UAV, was designed for scientific and commercial research missions.

An MQ-1 Predator over a mountain range in Nevada ... In 2007, an Aerosonde UAV took off from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and headed into Hurricane Noel, a Category 1 storm ...