{"id":2955,"date":"2023-02-09T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T01:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:53:50","slug":"what-is-skye-utm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-skye-utm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Skye UTM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0About Skye UTM:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> It is a <strong>Cloud-based aerial traffic management system<\/strong> that <strong>integrates unmanned air traffic with manned aviation airspace.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: It has been built towards providing <strong>situational awareness<\/strong>, <strong>autonomous navigation, risk assessment, and traffic management<\/strong> to all drone\/other aerial mobility operators across the airspace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operation<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>captures<\/strong> more than <strong>255+ parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) movements<\/strong> and <strong>stores them into its &#8216;Blackbox<\/strong>,&#8217; a <strong>published systematic description <\/strong>of the entire flight.<\/li>\n<li>The platform <strong>offers the first 3-Dimensional view of the drone airspace<\/strong> along with operations and regulations <strong>mapping servers<\/strong> which provide the latest airspace status, verified paths and <strong>display real-time UAV movements.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>connects and communicates with all types of drones<\/strong>, from survey drones to delivery drones to aerial taxis.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>handle more than 4000 flights per hour.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The platform <strong>offers regulatory access to Air Traffic Controllers and other regulatory authorities,<\/strong> allowing them to have real-time drone traffic movement information, pilot information, and other necessary data for evaluation and coordination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a drone?<\/h3>\n<p>A drone refers to any aerial vehicle that receives remote commands from a pilot or relies on software for autonomous flight. Many drones display features like cameras for collecting visual data and propellers for stabilizing their flight patterns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/gadkari-unveils-advanced-drone-air-traffic-management-system-skye-utm-123020801048_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Gadkari unveils advanced drone air traffic management system &#8216;Skye UTM&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skye UTM is an aerial traffic management system integrating unmanned air traffic with manned aviation airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}