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UVIONIX Helps NASA Frontier Development Lab Explore Use Of Drones In A New Approach To Fight Asteroid DangerR. CORDOVA, Calif., July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- UVIONIX AEROSPACE is joining partners, SETI Institute, NVIDIA and Autodesk, in supporting young researchers developing new approaches to investigating the potential threat of asteroids.
"We are excited to take part in the NASA FDL project and believe we can substantially contribute," Yordan Iskrev, Co-founder and CEO of UVIONIX. Researchers believe that using advanced UAV technology could drastically speed up the process of finding, retrieving and analyzing asteroid fragments reaching the ground. "From the 8 or so large meteorite falls recovered around the world annually, only a few are tracked coming in. Using drones may help recover the smaller falls that are tracked in our camera networks," said SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, Core Mentor at FDL. "Increasing the number of tracked falls will point us to where in the asteroid belt meteorites of different type originate." The project is hosted at the SETI Institute in Mountain View under the supervision of the FDL co-Director James Parr and SETI Institute CEO, Bill Diamond. Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160727/393526 To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/uvionix-helps-nasa-frontier-development-lab-explore-use-of-drones-in-a-new-approach-to-fight-asteroid-danger-300305000.html SOURCE UVIONIX Aerospace |