{"id":918638,"date":"2025-04-01T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918638"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:54:05","slug":"amazon-drones-flying-again-says-updates-on-mk30-drone-complete-and-approved-for-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/amazon-drones-flying-again-says-updates-on-mk30-drone-complete-and-approved-for-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon drones flying again, says updates on MK30 drone complete and approved for deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has resumed its drone delivery operations in Texas and Arizona following a two-month suspension, the company confirmed Monday. The Prime Air service restarted last week after completing software updates and receiving Federal Aviation Administration approval.The e-commerce giant had halted deliveries in January after discovering an abnormality with the drones&#8217; altitude sensors, which could have produced inaccurate readings of the drones&#8217; position relative to the ground. The issue was reportedly caused by dust particles in the Arizona air affecting sensor readings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safety underscores everything we do at Prime Air, which is why we paused our operations to conduct a software update on the MK30 drone,&#8221; said Amazon spokesperson Av Zammit. &#8220;The updates are now complete and were approved by the FAA, allowing us to resume deliveries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has resumed its drone delivery operations in Texas and Arizona following a two-month suspension, the company confirmed Monday. The Prime Air service restarted last week after completing software updates and receiving Federal Aviation Administration approval.The e-commerce giant had halted deliveries in January after discovering an abnormality with the drones&#8217; altitude sensors, which could have produced inaccurate readings of the drones&#8217; position relative to the ground. The issue was reportedly caused by dust particles in the Arizona air affecting sensor readings. &#8220;Safety underscores everything we do at Prime Air, which is why we paused our operations to conduct a software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}