{"id":117029,"date":"2020-12-12T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/autonomous-drone-carries-an-8-lb-payload-and-unlimited-flight-time"},"modified":"2020-12-12T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:24:19","slug":"autonomous-drone-carries-an-8-lb-payload-and-unlimited-flight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/autonomous-drone-carries-an-8-lb-payload-and-unlimited-flight-time","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous drone carries an 8 lb payload and unlimited flight time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autonomous-drone-carries-an-8-lb-payload-and-unlimited-flight-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easy Aerial claims its Albatross UAS is a tethered machine that has an unbreachable data connection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Drone startup Easy Aerial has launched a new unmanned aerial system (UAS), called Albatross, a tethered device with unlimited flight time and an unbreachable data connection.<\/p>\n<p>The drone hexacopter can carry an 8.5 lb payload capacity with three hardpoints, two on the side that can carry up to 4 lb and the bottom hardpoint that can carry payloads of up to 8 lb. The side payload stations feature standard mounting as well as Picatinny rails that support a wide range of applications such as floodlights, communications relays, loudspeakers and cyber-related and other commercial and military electronic systems. The bottom hardpoint is designed for gimbaled cameras or large ISR loads such as radar or communication jammers.<\/p>\n<p>Because of these features, the system works in applications such as commercial, public safety, firefighting, military, border patrol, perimeter, and infrastructure overwatch and surveillance operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy Aerial claims its Albatross UAS is a tethered machine that has an unbreachable data connection. Drone startup Easy Aerial has launched a new unmanned aerial system (UAS), called Albatross, a tethered device with unlimited flight time and an unbreachable data connection. The drone hexacopter can carry an 8.5 lb payload capacity with three hardpoints, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}