The company has successfully completed a crucial test of the aircraft. Recent trials conducted at Spaceport America in New Mexico, USA, demonstrated that the solar-powered aircraft can remain ...

The battery company said, in a press release, the small aircraft was conceived for long flights at a stratospheric altitude of 12km or more. The airplane engine is powered by solar cells on the ...

DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has set a seemingly impossible task, known as the Vulture program, by calling for an aircraft ... and double-sided solar panels are ...

is developing a wide range of technologies for its planned ultra-lightweight high altitude platform station (HAPS), a solar-powered aircraft meant to operate at an altitude of 20 km above the ...