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Britain has scored a world-first with a series of test flights to demonstrate the core technologies of a future quantum navigation system that's designed to foil one of the most potentially dangerous, yet not very widely publicized, threats that transportation faces: GPS jamming and spoofing.

Counter-drone systems typically attack a UAV's radio control or GPS systems, disabling pilot control as well as pre-programmed missions. But British defense tech company QinetiQ has now demonstrated a laser-controlled drone these systems can't stop.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is shipping crude oil into space. This may seem like the worst market in the Universe to expand into, but there's method behind this petroleum madness.

Normally, a spacecraft slamming into a planet’s surface at the speed of sound is considered a bad thing, but the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to do just that. Last July, the agency fired a pair of experimental surface penetrators from a rocket sled at a test facility in Wales.

The U.S. military has selected three "throwable" robots for field-testing in Afghanistan.

The Dragon Runner 10 (DR10) is the latest Micro Unmanned Ground Vehicle (MUGV) robot to join QinetiQ's Dragon Runner family.

"Blackfish" is a robotic jet-ski designed specifically to patrol harbors and search for underwater intruders.

QinetiQ will provide unmanned vehicle equipment and training to aid in in the dangerous task of clearing hazardous debris resulting from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011.

The U.S. Army is equipping its soldiers with Individual Gunshot Detectors (IGD) that use the sound waves generated by enemy gunfire to instantaneously determine its location and distance.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale has ratified the three world records claims made by QinetiQ in July 2010 after its Zephyr UAV stayed airborne for over 14 days.

QinetiQ has filed for three world records for Zephyr, its solar powered high-altitude long endurance (HALE) Unmanned Air System (UAS) that stayed aloft for 14 nights.

Barring mishap, QinetiQ will set a significant milestone in aviation history later today.