Zipline: saving lives with delivery drones

On Saturday, I was made aware of a video by Real Engineering – a YouTube channel I already followed – which goes into the details of how a company is running an autonomous drone-based delivery service for critical medical supplies including blood in remote regions of Rwanda.

I’ve been aware of companies like Amazon and Domino’s wanting to get into the drone delivery service using quad-copter type drones, but this stunned me as an absolutely incredible use of technology for humanitarian purposes.

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Distant Worlds II – Day 0 – The Departure

We departed!

I headed from Flade Enterprise out to the fleet departure point at Pallaeni to await the first mass jump to HR 5413 as the fleet departed

Unfortunately, as I was awaiting the departure, I was brutally murdered by CMDR Rivertide, a Dangerous-ranked commander in a Mamba. Thankfully, I’d docked at Bakewell Point in the Pallaeni system, so I didn’t have far to travel back to the departure point.

Due to issues with server lag, I didn’t continue the journey beyond the initial jump.