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DR O NE

DRONAMICS joins consortium to power

medical deliveries for NHS Scotland

RONAMICS will participate
Din the CAELUS project, a
consortium of partners aiming
to transform the way healthcare
is delivered in Scotland.
CAELUS is a collaboration Windracers
led by AGS Airports that will
design and test the United secures
Kingdom's first national delivery
network that will use drones to additional
distribute crucial medications, funding from
blood, organs, and other
medical supplies throughout UKRI's Future
Scotland. CAELUS (Care &
Equity - Healthcare Logistics for medical supplies throughout Strathclyde, and National Air Flight
UAS Scotland) has acquired Scotland. CAELUS is establishing Traffic Services (NATS).
over £10 million ($12 million) a national drone network for The project is funded under ondon - headquartered
in funding from UK Research medical delivery in Scotland the Future Flight Challenge, the LWindracers has received the
and Innovation's Future Flight with 16 partners, including UKRI-led investment program third round of funding from
Challenge (UKRI). The CAELUS AGS Airports (Glasgow and that has committed £125 mil- UKRI's Future Flight challenge to
partnership is working to build a Aberdeen Airports), NHS lion ($149 million) to the next perform more rigorous testing of
national drone delivery network Scotland, the University of wave of aviation tech. their middle mile logistics drones
and high-reliability autopilot
Skyports secures $3.13 million technology.
Future Flight is advancing the
in Series B funding development of new technol-
ogy, societal understanding, and
sophisticated aviation solutions
kyports has achieved the now stands at USD $26.13 for Singapore's Public Utilities in order to bring about the third
Sfinal close of its Series B million, thanks to the arrival of Board (PUB). aviation revolution. The Future
capital raising, including new the Singapore heavyweight. Skyports' expert flight opera- Flight challenge's Phase 3 pro-
investment from ST Engineering The Series B investment was tions capabilities will be com- jects, which vary from hydrogen-
Ventures, its Corporate Venture substantially oversubscribed, bined with ST Engineering's powered planes to airspace
Capital business. demonstrating investor confi- drone system solution, DroNet, management systems, will get
Following the initial closure dence in Skyports' proposition to enable autonomous Beyond £73 million in funding to develop
in March of this year, ST and industry trajectory. Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) and showcase integrated avia-
Engineering, which has over ST Engineering's invest- flights over the city-reservoir tion systems and new vehicle
45 years of expertise in the ment in Skyports builds on the state's network. Skyports, ST technologies.
aerospace business, will join two companies' long history Engineering, and Sumitomo Windracers has completed a
as the last investor in Skyports' of partnership in Singapore. Corporation expanded their number of testing in collabora-
Series B investment Skyports has collaborated collaboration by forming a con- tion with Royal Mail as part of
round. Sky- extensively with ST Engineer- sortium in early 2022 to provide the UKRI-funded Sustainable
ports' total ing since early 2021 to jointly unmanned aircraft services for Aviation Test Environment
invest- run reservoir monitoring and ship-to-shore parcel delivery in (SATE) project, including test
ment inspection drone services Singapore. flights on the Shetland and Ork-
ney Islands. Windracers will be
able to expand its experiments
in Scotland and work with the
Civil Aviation Authority to create
a safe and strong regulatory
framework for autonomous fly-
ing with the new financing.
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