demonstrated that the solar-powered aircraft can remain airborne for 24 hours at an altitude exceeding 12 miles. BAE Systems highlights that this enables rapid preparation for subsequent flights ...

With so many examples to look at, building a solar-powered RC airplane in 2024 should ... During the first test flights they quickly found that although the airplane few fairly well, the moment ...

The team at [Bearospace Industries] has been working on the challenge for the while, and their Solar Dragon aircraft recently had a very successful test flight, producing about 50% more power than ...

The ispace Resilience lander will lift off atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space ...

The Zephyr is not your usual aircraft. It only travels at 40mph, it is launched by hand and it is completely solar-powered. The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air ...

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) subsidiary company AALTO has begun flight operations of the Zephyr high-altitude ...

There was a similar lag in expectation, to 2040, for hydrogen-powered flight. Until more advanced tech becomes available, SAFs offer a more immediate emissions-reduction option, as they can be ...

Prismatic, the BAE Systems-owned developer of solar-powered high-altitude pseudo-satellites, is gearing up for multiday flights with a new version of its PHASA-35 uncrewed aircraft system. With two ...