Solar Powered Drone Project

Internal development of the aquila aircraft was stopped in june 2018.

Solar powered drone project.

Analytically the spaq comprises four units. Facebook acquired small uk based aviation company ascenta in march 2014. Or perhaps the combination of perfectly controlled solar powered drones and loon s fast to deploy and rapid moving balloons can be combined into a hybrid system creating the ultimate internet coverage network. To date solar drones have been used for mapping surveillance remote sensing and more.

The solar powered drone will be used for surveillance and to provide communications in remote areas much like facebook s aquila drone project. Constructed using lightweight carbon fibre material the quadcopter drone weighs only 2 6 kg and has a surface area of about 4 sqm. Both google and facebook have invested in projects looking at using solar powered drones for this purpose but the projects have since been canceled. I made this drone as a research and as i simple weekend project so you can also try if you ll like it.

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 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 company then launched project aquila which seeks to use a solar powered drone to deliver internet. 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.

Solar powered r c drone. The project demonstrates how solar can be coupled with. 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. The latest solar powered drone project from google is called the skybender.

Update 1 february 2016. It first flew on 28 june 2016 with a second aircraft successfully flying in 2017. The xsol e1 1 project explores the use of solar energy as a supplemental power source to extend uad unmanned aerial device flight time. The solar power system.