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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 15 November 2012 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | unmanned aircraft; drones; civilian drones; UAs |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | BBC News |
| Title | Unmanned aircraft project leads push to civilian drones |
| Dateline | — (Jason Palmer) |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20327991 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2012-11-15|bbc|astraea-civilian-unmanned-aircraft |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Jason Palmer reported the UK-led £62m Astraea project — with CAA participation — was trying to open civilian unmanned aircraft. A later-November collision-avoidance test was planned. A UK Aerospace KTN report put unmanned-aircraft applications at some £260bn. Uses named: crop or wildlife monitoring, search and rescue, railway inspection. Ruth Mallors (Aerospace KTN) said the aim is to meet existing manned-aircraft CAA rules, not write new ones. Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal (Astraea director) said aircraft must have “self-determinism” if the ground link is lost, but “we’re not talking about unthinking drones.” Partners include BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Thales UK and EADS Cassidian; Gary Clayton said CAP722 was being held up internationally as a UA legislation template. Chris Elliott said licensing and privacy were “to debate, not to pontificate,” and “Pandora’s box is open — these things are going to fly.” Recent UK debate included London’s Metropolitan Police use. Three-plane collision-avoidance tests were due in two weeks.

**Kinematic object.** Astraea civilian unmanned aircraft and on-board detect-and-avoid software; CAA CAP722 as the licensing template

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original
- Wire reprint status: BBC Science original from a Science Media Centre briefing.
- What was excluded

- Date 15 November 2012 is the date WebSearch extracted from this page; related stories on the same page are 11 and 13 November 2012, consistent with mid-November publication.
- Excluded later related-story chrome.

## LRRK relevance

Control Fabric / Sense-Move-Act. UK civil UAS detect-and-avoid and lost-link autonomy programme.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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