The leaders of the Google Project Project Wing, dedicated to the development of technologies for commercial drones, announced the successful testing of the air traffic monitoring system for drones. One of the leaders of Project Wing, James Burgess, in his post on Medium reported that the project took part in a number of national tests organized by NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration.

The purpose of these tests was to study how to manage the growing number of unmanned aerial systems in airspace. Project Wing demonstrated on them its air traffic management system. The challenge for the system was that the three Project Wing drones operated by only one operator performed jobs simultaneously and on the same territory as the two Intel drones and the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership drone.

The system has shown that it can successfully be a "controller" for several UAVs of different types and choose for them safe routes through the air, avoiding a collision, which was previously achieved only by manually controlling each drone.

"Most likely, in a few years Wing and other companies will have entire air fleets consisting of thousands of unmanned systems flying at any time of the day," says Burgess.

Note that Google X, the Alphabet unit responsible for Project Wings, launched the project in 2012, but until 2014 kept it a secret. In August 2016, the White House announced that Project Wings had received permission to conduct the first tests of its drones.

Recall, the American company SpaceX will deliver the experimental military satellite X-37B into orbit. The launch should take place in August 2017 with the help of the Falcon 9 missile.

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