DeTect’s HARRIER® surveillance radar is supporting a new airspace management network at Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport in western Oklahoma, following the rollout and configuration of radar infrastructure for Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ FlightHorizon TEMPO system.
FlightHorizon TEMPO is a fully integrated, cloud-hosted airspace management system designed to provide beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone and advanced air mobility (AAM) operators with real-time detect-and-avoid coverage across thousands of square kilometres of airspace. The system tracks both cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft, with DeTect’s HARRIER® radar forming part of the surveillance network supporting the operation.
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Lawrence Epperson shared an update from the Oklahoma Spaceport, highlighting the live operation of the system and its ability to monitor air traffic across western Oklahoma.
“That image is real. No AI,” Epperson said, referring to an image of the sun rising over the infrastructure supporting the FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system around Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport.
Epperson said the system provides a fully integrated, networked, cloud-hosted, highly automated, resilient and self-monitoring airspace management capability with compliant detect and avoid as a baseline function. He added that he was able to watch air traffic over western Oklahoma through a browser, track his own UAS in the system, and receive trajectory predictions and alerts.
According to Epperson, the infrastructure is intended to support safety for large UAS and AAM development, autonomous space launch, including planned operations with Dawn Aerospace in 2027, and long-range autonomous flight operations. He invited organisations interested in the system to request a demonstration.
The project includes the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics, Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport, Grayson Ardies, Douglas Wood and Chris Wadsworth, along with the Oklahoma Progressing Rural Economic Prosperity (PREP) Fund. Technology and industry partners include Vigilant Aerospace Systems, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, Ricardo Arteaga, Kendyn Webster, Zach Peterson, Robert Alden, Kathryn Hund, River Cordova, Craig J. Smith, Leshia Pearson and Laura Rudicel.
The project brings together radar surveillance and airspace management technologies to support BVLOS and AAM safety at the Oklahoma Spaceport, with the network providing coverage across thousands of square kilometres of airspace.
