Under direct solar power, the Sunseeker II is able to fly at 18 m/s (~40 mph) on solar power alone or 36 m/s (~80 mph) when the batteries are also used. It flies slowly enough that it is ...

Powered entirely by the sun, the plane is the first of its kind to fly at night. The goal? A 20-day, 20-night trip around the world.

The US Navy is developing an uncrewed solar-powered aircraft to fly for 90 days at a time. The Skydweller aircraft could be used as a communications relay platform or a constant eye in the sky to ...

Solar-Powered Airplane Embarks On Attempt To Fly Around The World : The Two-Way The trip began Monday morning in Abu Dhabi, with a 13-hour trip to Muscat, Oman. On Tuesday, the plane flies to India.

Fueled by thin solar panels that cover its 236-foot-long wings, the Solar Impulse 2 will soon make its daring round-the-world journey that no one initially thought possible.

Ground crew wait on the tarmac before the Solar Impulse plane takes off on a multi-city trip across the United States from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., Friday ...

Collaboration with MagLev Aero could see XTI install magnetically levitated electric propulsion on an uncrewed aircraft for ...

"The Kea Atmos is the first solar-powered stratospheric aircraft designed and built in the Southern Hemisphere. It's an incredible challenge to make the aircraft as lightweight as possible to fly ...

This Swiss aircraft weighs over 3,527 lbs, but still managed to fly 337 miles on Solar power. Now as you may imagine, ...

In a bid to redefine long-range maritime surveillance and strategic overwatch, French defense electronics major Thales has joined forces with US aerospace startup Skydweller Aero to deploy an ...

Commercial aircraft generally operate at altitudes between 33,000 and 42,000 ft, whereas Kea’s solar-powered aircraft can operate above the weather and jet stream.

The Solar Airship One is a whale-shaped aircraft measuring 151 meters (495.4 feet) in length and with a helium volume of 50,000 cubic meters (1,765,733 cubic feet).