Showing posts with label Aircraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aircraft. Show all posts
December 18, 2013
October 8, 2013
Amazing Solar powered drone that can fly at 65,000 feet for five years
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 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
July 2, 2013
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