Amazon will soon launch drone parcel delivery to a second US location. The company announced that drone parcel delivery will begin at College Station in Texas, after confirming that they will be used in Lockeford (California). According to media reports (via CNBC),
Amazon has been working for drone delivery since the beginning of this decade. The project will begin at two locations this year. Amazon selected College Station, Texas as the second location. It is home to more than 115,000 people and has a university that educates more than 45,000 students. Amazon explained that the drones would be launched in College Station in collaboration with Texas A&M University later in the year. The exact date has not been announced by Amazon.
Amazon customers will then be able to have thousands of items delivered by drone every day for no cost. Amazon claims that drones can deliver packages up to five pounds in under an hour. Prime Air drones fly at speeds up to 80 km/h and can reach heights of up to 122m. Once an order has been placed, the drones will fly from the new delivery location to the original delivery location, then sink into the customer’s backyard and hover at a safe height.
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The drone releases the contents, then climbs back up and returns to its base. Amazon’s drone delivery program is slowing down since 2013. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, announced that drone delivery would start in 2018. There was much backlash, and it seemed for a long while that the Prime drones would not materialize.
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In 2020, the actual permit to fly was granted. Amazon stated that College Station parcel delivery was not a trial operation. They are instead performed under an FAA-issued aircraft certificate. This allows commercial deliveries and proves that our extensive processes comply with the strict safety requirements set forth by the FAA.
