INDEX

• astronauts, 14

• BAE Systems, 13
• barges, 16, 17
• Boeing, 8, 9,
  • X-37B, 14, 15

• cameras, 4, 7, 10, 12, 22, 25, 29
• Cape Canaveral, 16

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 10
• delivery drones, 5, 18–22

• Echo Voyager, 9
• Ehang 184, 26, 27
• extreme sports, 5

• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 29
• flight times, 8

• International Space Station (ISS), 14

• Kennedy Space Center, 16

• laws, 29
• Lockheed Martin, 12

• Matternet, 20–21
• medical supplies, 19, 22
• meteorologists, 5, 28
• military drones, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12–14, 25
• movies, 25

• natural disasters, 22, 28

• parcelcopters, 19

• recharging, 8, 9, 26
• refueling, 8
• rockets, 16

• sea drones, 9
• Skunk Works, 12
• space drones, 14, 15
• SR-71 Blackbird, 12
• SR-72 Blackbird, 12

• Taranis, 13

• United Nations (UN), 22
• unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 6, 7