The Zephyr S air vehicle, also known as a drone and a pseudo-satellite, took flight last June from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground located in Arizona. The aircraft was designed to stay in the air ...
This year's Mobile World Congress, considered by many the most influential connectivity event, brought the futuristic Zephyr aircraft back to the public's attention. This innovative contraption, ...
The U.S. military wants to have robotic eyes in the sky constantly roving and watching what goes on below, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They might achieve that capability very soon, as a test ...
A solar-powered aircraft built by Airbus recently broke the record for the longest continuous flight. On its first outing, the unmanned Zephyr S stayed aloft for 25 days, 23 hours, and 57 minutes ...
Airbus' Zephyr program has claimed another record, with a production model unmanned solar-powered aircraft touching down after more than 25 days in the air. That voyage is the longest unmanned flight ...
An experimental aircraft tested in conjunction with the United States Army has been in the air above the Sonoran Desert for 42 days, breaking its own record for longest uncrewed flight. The ...
The remarkable Zephyr is a stratospheric UAV designed to fly ultra-long endurance missions acting as a solar-powered observation and comms platform. In its latest test, it sailed past its old ...
Touch down after 25 days, 23 hours, and 57 minutes System capabilities demonstrated Maiden Flight objectives achieved Farnborough, 8 August 2018 – Airbus Defence and Space announced the successful ...
Skydweller CEO Robert Miller describes exactly how the aircraft was lost—and why the future prospects for perpetual solar ...
Airbus Zephyr did not achieve its goals of breaking a world record for the longest flight made by an aircraft, and the solar-powered drone crashed in Arizona after 64 days of sustained flight. The ...
An Airbus flight-test campaign to prove its solar-powered, stratosphere-cruising Zephyr aircraft and payloads it will carry for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) got off to an inauspicious start last ...
The Zephyr flies on sun power alone at over 70,000 feet, an altitude that just a few aircraft like the Concorde and SR-71 Blackbird have reached. That's well above any weather, and lets it perform ...
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