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ANRA Technologies Collaborates with Estonian Aviation Academy “to Form U‑space Test Centre in Estonia”

ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, a leader in uncrewed traf­fic man­age­ment and oper­a­tional solu­tions, announced this week a part­ner­ship with the Eston­ian Avi­a­tion Acad­e­my (EAVA), “a state-owned insti­tu­tion with a mis­sion to edu­cate and train future avi­a­tion tal­ent,” reports a press release. 

The release con­tin­ues, “The part­ners will joint­ly co-devel­op, man­age, and oper­ate an Uncrewed Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS) test­ing facil­i­ty in Tar­tu, Esto­nia, for the wide-scale devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of UAS tech­nolo­gies for U‑space imple­men­ta­tion.”

The ini­tial suc­cess­ful test­ing and val­i­da­tion phas­es last Sep­tem­ber with the Eston­ian Trans­port Admin­is­tra­tion, Eston­ian Busi­ness and Inno­va­tion Agency, along­side the Tar­tu Sci­ence Park Foun­da­tion, has paved the way for ANRA and EAVA to estab­lish per­ma­nent test facil­i­ties for U‑space oper­a­tions and sup­port­ing infra­struc­ture.

Amit Gan­joo, Founder and CEO of ANRA Tech­nolo­gies, remarked, “This strate­gic alliance marks a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward in advanc­ing the capa­bil­i­ties of uncrewed aer­i­al sys­tems, and it solid­i­fies the shared com­mit­ment of both ANRA and EAVA to dri­ve inno­va­tion and progress towards ful­ly com­mer­cialised UAS oper­a­tions in the EU.”

He con­tin­ued, “The Tar­tu-based test­ing facil­i­ty will serve as a hub for research, test­ing, and refine­ment of UAS tech­nolo­gies, fos­ter­ing an envi­ron­ment con­ducive to the evo­lu­tion and inte­gra­tion of these tech­nolo­gies into the EU air­space.”

Amit Gan­joo

Maiken Kull, Vice Rec­tor of Devel­op­ment at the Eston­ian Avi­a­tion Acad­e­my, added, “This col­lab­o­ra­tion is set to unlock new pos­si­bil­i­ties and con­tribute to the broad­er land­scape of UAS devel­op­ment, mak­ing Esto­nia a focal point for advance­ments in U‑space imple­men­ta­tion.” 

Employ­ing ANRA’s air­space and fleet man­age­ment tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions com­bined with EAVA’s avi­a­tion exper­tise, facil­i­ties and staff, pro­vides a first-of-its-kind sand­box in the region. The col­lab­o­ra­tion “pro­vides a con­ducive test envi­ron­ment for de-risk­ing and matur­ing tech­nolo­gies and ser­vices that align with EU U‑space reg­u­la­tions while also serv­ing as a cat­a­lyst for accel­er­at­ing inno­va­tion and mar­ket adop­tion of Inno­v­a­tive Aer­i­al Ser­vices,” explains the release.

The estab­lish­ment of a U‑space sand­box enables stake­hold­ers to ful­fil their roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties in accor­dance with EU Reg­u­la­tion 2021/664, 2021/665, and 2021/666, facil­i­tat­ing the eval­u­a­tion of their busi­ness and oper­a­tional strate­gies. 

It also allows the Com­pe­tent Author­i­ty to estab­lish a grad­ual approach to com­mer­cial oper­a­tions and ser­vice pro­vi­sion in a real-world envi­ron­ment until U‑space is ful­ly imple­ment­ed. 

Mean­while, EAVA takes on the role of man­ag­ing air­space and coor­di­nat­ing flight activ­i­ties in mul­ti­ple test sites by estab­lish­ing the sand­box oper­a­tions cen­tre at its premise near the air­port and the City of Tar­tu. 

Eston­ian Avi­a­tion Acad­e­my

This aligns with region­al efforts to devel­op the IAS ecosys­tem where U‑space stake­hold­ers can con­verge to val­i­date and imple­ment UAS solu­tions address­ing urban chal­lenges. 

The phys­i­cal and dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture for the test cen­tre is to be estab­lished and avail­able for tri­alling dur­ing the sec­ond half of this year.

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