Solar Powered Drone Project

Both google and facebook have invested in projects looking at using solar powered drones for this purpose but the projects have since been canceled.

Solar powered drone project.

The latest solar powered drone project from google is called the skybender. Internal development of the aquila aircraft was stopped in june 2018. The solar power system. The solar powered autonomous quadcopter spaq is a standalone autonomous surveillance system designed to carry out intelligently the capturing of video data from remote locations.

The solar powered drone will be used for surveillance and to provide communications in remote areas much like facebook s aquila drone project. Update 1 february 2016. The facebook aquila is an experimental solar powered drone developed by facebook for use as an atmospheric satellite intended to act as relay stations for providing internet access to remote areas. I made this drone as a research and as i simple weekend project so you can also try if you ll like it.

It first flew on 28 june 2016 with a second aircraft successfully flying in 2017. Constructed using lightweight carbon fibre material the quadcopter drone weighs only 2 6 kg and has a surface area of about 4 sqm. To date solar drones have been used for mapping surveillance remote sensing and more. Analytically the spaq comprises four units.

The purpose of doing it is to enable the aircraft to stay in the air for months or years at a time providing services such as communications and remote sensing said prismatic managing director. The xsol e1 1 project explores the use of solar energy as a supplemental power source to extend uad unmanned aerial device flight time. I m starting now a big drone project with two intelligent drones programmed by me and for this i need a much longer flight time than the casual dr. The company then launched project aquila which seeks to use a solar powered drone to deliver internet.

The project demonstrates how solar can be coupled with. Solar powered r c drone. While google abandoned its solar powered drone project fellow tech juggernaut facebook appears much more bullish on the potential of its own solar powered drone program. Solar drones have also been researched as a way to provide internet access to rural communities.