Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Drone Ballistic Recovery System Nears
The system covers UAVs ranging from several pounds to several thousand pounds.

Indemnis hopes to put its Nexus ballistic drone recovery system on the market by next summer. Company founder Alan Erickson said the system should retail for between $1,700 and $2,500 and satisfy upcoming FAA regulations for UAS flight over people and in urban areas for Part 107 commercial operations. Erickson said Nexus would be scalable for UAS vehicles ranging from eight pounds to “several thousand.” He said the production Nexus system will automatically deploy within 30 milliseconds of either detecting a failure on the drone or unrecoverable flight and that the system “can detect the difference between flight and failure within six feet of vertical movement.”