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DJI’s Active Track 5.0 on Mavic 3 gains ground on Skydio

Seth Weintraub - Apr. 22nd 2022 12:13 pm PT @llsethj

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The DJI Mavic 3 Pro flagship prosumer drone shipped installed last year without the company’s tracking software (as well as a bunch of other stuff we’ve come to know and love about DJI products). Earlier this year, DJI released firmware that enabled tracking called Active Track 5.0. Naturally, we took it for some testing and compared it to the king of tracker drones, the Skydio 2.

You don’t need to upload Skydio drone data manually to DroneDeploy anymore

Ishveena Singh - Apr. 15th 2022 6:46 am PT @IshveenaSingh

Skydio DroneDeploy

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So, you use DroneDeploy to visualize and analyze your Skydio drone data? You can now upload imagery captured on any Skydio drone directly to the DroneDeploy cloud platform without ever touching your SD card!

The Buzz Podcast: Drone Insurance reviews accident data, Skydio’s 100 Million Contract, and more

Seth Kurkowski - Feb. 14th 2022 12:27 pm PT

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Skydio wins US Army’s $100 million small drone recon contract

Bruce Crumley - Feb. 9th 2022 2:17 am PT @BDroneDJ

Skydio Military Drones US Army

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Drone manufacturer and automated flight specialist Skydio says it has won a contract to supply its X2D UAVs to the US Army’s Short-Range Reconnaissance Program (SRR). Valued at $20.2 million annually, the fixed-price provisionment agreement is expected to be worth $99.8 million over its five-year duration.

AirData partnership enables automatic retrieval of Skydio drone flight data

Ishveena Singh - Feb. 2nd 2022 1:43 am PT @IshveenaSingh

Skydio AirData

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Drone manufacturer Skydio and fleet management software company AirData are coming together as technology partners. The partnership will see the integration of Skydio 2, Skydio X2, and the Skydio 2+ drones into the AirData platform, with an added benefit of live-streaming drone footage coming soon.