Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
For the first time ever, we're getting an inside look at the deployment of a Black Swift S0 uncrewed aerial system (drone) from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter P-3 aircraft.
Years of engineering innovation led to this achievement. In collaboration with NOAA OMAO, AOC, AOML, and CIMAS, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the Black Swift Technologies Inc. team mounted a camera to the cap of the launch tube of an S0 drone during an operational mission into Hurricane Melissa.
Watch as the drone is ejected, stabilizes midair, and takes flight - collecting and transmitting critical data on the storm's structure and intensity in real time to help improve forecasts and better protect communities.
For the first time ever, we're getting an inside look at the deployment of a Black Swift S0 uncrewed aerial system (drone) from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter P-3 aircraft.
Years of engineering innovation led to this achievement. In collaboration with NOAA OMAO, AOC, AOML, and CIMAS, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the Black Swift Technologies Inc. team mounted a camera to the cap of the launch tube of an S0 drone during an operational mission into Hurricane Melissa.
Watch as the drone is ejected, stabilizes midair, and takes flight - collecting and transmitting critical data on the storm's structure and intensity in real time to help improve forecasts and better protect communities.
