Solar Powered Drone Project

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.

Solar powered drone project.

The solar powered drone will be used for surveillance and to provide communications in remote areas much like facebook s aquila 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. The company then launched project aquila which seeks to use a solar powered drone to deliver internet. Analytically the spaq comprises four units.

The latest solar powered drone project from google is called the skybender. Solar powered r c drone. The solar power system. 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.

The project demonstrates how solar can be coupled with. It first flew on 28 june 2016 with a second aircraft successfully flying in 2017. 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. To date solar drones have been used for mapping surveillance remote sensing and more.

This solar powered drone which was developed as a student project under the innovation design programme idp at nus faculty of engineering can take off and land vertically without a runway. 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. Solar drones have also been researched as a way to provide internet access to rural communities.

I made this drone as a research and as i simple weekend project so you can also try if you ll like it. Constructed using lightweight carbon fibre material the quadcopter drone weighs only 2 6 kg and has a surface area of about 4 sqm. 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 xsol e1 1 project explores the use of solar energy as a supplemental power source to extend uad unmanned aerial device flight time.