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Welcome to our Newsroom. Here you can find the latest news, articles, and blogs from NLR. We also showcase a range of videos and publications here. For more video content, please visit our YouTube channel, NLRmedia. The NLR Repository provides access to our public library of NLR reports.
Defence and Security
06 February 2025
German Armed Forces drone flies through European upper airspace for the time
On Monday, 3 February, a German drone with a wingspan of 26 metres belonging to the German Armed Forces flew from Germany to the Netherlands and back. The flight was the first in Europe to take place in upper airspace where commercial aircraft fly. The European MALE RPAS project is exploring the integration of uncrewed flights […]
Platform System Design
06 January 2025
Booklet: Enabling safe and seamless drone operations
Drones are a key enabler for innovative solutions to tackle rapidly changing societal, economic and securitychallenges. NLR is the knowledge partner in this field for industry and government. We offer support in thedevelopment, implementation and societal acceptance of unmanned and autonomous aviation, taking intoaccount safety and minimal nuisance. We help with the realisation of safe, […]
Platform Technology
11 October 2024
Satellite navigation brings autonomous drones one step closer
Drones have many new applications in society, such as accelerating the energy transition and improving health care. How? For instance, by quickly transporting donor organs or blood from one hospital to another or by inspecting wind turbines at sea to prevent downtime. There are endless ways to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), in other words, […]
Platform System Design
07 December 2023
Experimenting in a simulated urban area with Drone DigiCity
Drones are becoming increasingly useful in our society – just think of all the drone flights for research, inspections and transport. The practical applications seem inexhaustible. There are still challenges for using this technology in urban areas and the added value that drones provide is by no means a given in terms of public acceptance. […]
Airport Operations
14 August 2023
R&D case: ILS inspection on airports with drones
Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at airports are periodically calibrated using an aircraft equipped with a Flight Inspection System, such as the NLR Citation II research aircraft. If the ILS works well, and the transmission is free from disturbances, some periodic measurements can be carried out from or near the ground. This comprises Reduced Flight Inspection […]
Air Traffic Management
05 June 2023
R&D case: ATM U-space interface (AURA)
The AURA (ATM U-space InteRfAce) project (SESAR 2020 project PJ34 ) investigated the development of concepts and technologies that are necessary to allow existing ATM systems and future U-space operations to interact in a safe, predictable and seamless way. One of the basic assumptions of the project is that manned and unmanned movements take place […]
Air Traffic Management
24 April 2023
R&D case: Unified approach airspace design and separation management U-space (Metropolis 2)
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) concepts, such as flying taxis and package delivery drones, are increasingly viewed as an essential component of future transportation systems. But before UAM flights can occur on a meaningful scale, several challenges need to be tackled including airspace integration. Recognising the need to address this challenge, several initiatives are underway worldwide […]
Airport Operations
29 March 2023
R&D case: Hyperlocal wind nowcasting for drones by drones (METSIS)
NLR develops advanced services supporting more complex operations in dense areas such as assistance for Detect & Avoid and U-space Weather Information Services. To provide drone operators with information about the actual and forecasted weather situation, NLR develops a service to provide hyperlocal wind nowcasting for drones by drones. Due to their light-weight nature, small […]
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