Amazing Solar powered drone that can fly at 65,000 feet for five years
The aircraft has 3,000 solar panels producing about 7 kW of electricity and would be above the clouds
An American aerospace company has developed a light-weight solar-powered drone that can fly at 65,000 feet for five years
The Solara series, the largest of which measures 60 metres wide, are classed as a 'High Altitude Long Endurance solar atmospheric satellites capable of carrying telecom, reconnaissance and atmospheric sensors
The largest plane they plan to build, the Solara 60, could carry up to 250 pounds anything from signals intelligence gear
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the Solari series
The Solara series differ from the more traditional drones
They are designed to be cheaper than the cost of a satellite, while carrying out similar functions such as surveillance, crop-monitoring, weather and disaster oversight, or any other monitoring that low-altitude satellites track
