DeTect’s technology partners at Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. have rolled out and configured new radar infrastructure for the FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system at the Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport in western Oklahoma. DeTect’s HARRIER surveillance radar forms part of the network making it possible.
FlightHorizon TEMPO is a fully integrated, cloud-hosted airspace management system built to give beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone and advanced air mobility (AAM) operators compliant, real-time detect-and-avoid coverage across thousands of square kilometres of airspace, tracking both cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft. It is exactly the scale of safety-critical infrastructure DeTect’s radar technology was designed to support.
Kraettli Lawrence Epperson, CEO of Vigilant Aerospace, shared from the site:
“That image is real. No AI. That is the sun rising this morning over the infrastructure supporting thousands of square kilometres of the FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system radiating out from the Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport in western Oklahoma. Do you want to see a real, fully integrated, networked, cloud-hosted, highly automated, resilient, self-monitoring airspace management system with compliant detect-and-avoid as a baseline function? I’m watching the air traffic over western Oklahoma from my browser right now. I could track my own UAS in the system and get instant trajectory predictions and alerts. This is safety for large UAS and AAM development, autonomous space launch (coming in 2027 with Dawn Aerospace), and long-range autonomous flight operations.”
Congratulations go to project sponsors the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics, Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport, Grayson Ardies, Douglas Wood, and Chris Wadsworth, and the Oklahoma Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity (PREP) Fund, as well as fellow tech and industry partners Vigilant Aerospace Systems, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Ricardo Arteaga, Kendyn Webster, Zach Peterson, Robert Alden, Kathryn Hund, River Cordova, Craig J. Smith, Leshia Pearson, and Laura Rudicel.
DeTect is glad to be part of a project moving BVLOS and AAM safety forward at this scale.
