A solar-powered aircraft is a huge challenge for which the aircraft's design must be finely honed by the two key requirements of efficiency and mass.

New Zealand’s first solar-powered electric, stratospheric aircraft was launched using an Audi e-tron S Sportback. The “Kea Atmos Mk1” from Kea Aerospace is designed to collect high ...

Germany's DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics flew its unmanned solar-powered ELHASPA aircraft for the first time this month.

A prototype of the Solar Impulse, an aircraft powered entirely by the sun, will be unveiled this month.

Electric-powered flight is nascent, but the promise is real, as is the opportunity for composites fabricators and suppliers.

Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered airplane The next leg will take Solar Impulse 2 to Ahmedabad, India, as the plane slowly makes its way around the globe.

Guilt-free air travel is a beautiful dream, but there’s simply no way to get enough solar energy to keep a cabin full of people in the air.

The current renaissance began with Robert Boucher, who pioneered the use of electric motors for model airplanes and in the early 1970s built a couple of pilotless solar-powered aircraft under ...

At first glance, Trump appeared to be conflating solar-powered aircraft with new electric planes, a different technology altogether. A Trump-campaign spokesperson did not respond to my request for ...

You may be wondering, can an aircraft with a wingspan of over 200 feet even fly? Of course it can, especially when the wings are covered in 12,000 solar cells. These Cells draw light energy from ...

Beaming solar power from space used to be considered science fiction. But in recent years, space agencies from all over the world have launched studies looking at the feasibility of constructing ...