Tag: Black Swift S0

A digital rendering of a sleek, bronze-colored drone with water droplets on its surface, flying low over rough ocean waves. The drone has a black rounded nose with white circular sensors, long thin black wings extending outward, and thin antenna-like protrusions. In the upper right background, a blurred aircraft flies under a cloudy sky.

S0 drone demonstrates new dual-altitude capability in Hurricane Lala

For the first time during an operational hurricane mission, NOAA and Black Swift Technologies demonstrated simultaneous dual-altitude drone flight capability, the latest advancement in the use of small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) to collect critical atmospheric data in severe storms. The novel feat, coined Mobile Ocean Towers, enables scientists to fly two Black Swift S0 sUAS […]

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New drone data improves hurricane intensity forecasts

For the first time, data from a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) – Black Swift Technologies’ S0 – will be integrated into NOAA’s hurricane forecast model during the 2026 hurricane season. Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) determined that incorporating sUAS data […]

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