Solar Powered Drone Project

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 drone project.

Analytically the spaq comprises four units. The xsol e1 1 project explores the use of solar energy as a supplemental power source to extend uad unmanned aerial device flight time. Solar powered r c drone. 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.

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. 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 drones have also been researched as a way to provide internet access to rural communities.

Facebook acquired small uk based aviation company ascenta in march 2014. Both google and facebook have invested in projects looking at using solar powered drones for this purpose but the projects have since been canceled. 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 solar powered drone will be used for surveillance and to provide communications in remote areas much like facebook s aquila drone project.

To date solar drones have been used for mapping surveillance remote sensing and more. 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. 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.

The solar power system. I made this drone as a research and as i simple weekend project so you can also try if you ll like it. The project demonstrates how solar can be coupled with. The company then launched project aquila which seeks to use a solar powered drone to deliver internet.