What's next for the Pentagon after the Replicator programme?
Although the Replicator initiative has made several accomplishments, there are still multiple gaps to plug across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and its services.
Solar powered SAT-I flies for ten hours
UAVOS has completed a ten hour flight test of the solar powered SAT-I UAS carrying a 600g camera payload.
SAT-i is designed to perform monitoring and aerial photography during daylight hours for a range of applications such as prospecting, mapping and monitoring important lines of communication in remote areas.
The fixed wing aircraft has a wingspan of 7.3 meters and weight of 6.2kg. It is hand-launched, with flight and landing performed in fully autonomous mode.
Equipped with a back-up Li-Ion battery, the aircraft can extend its operation if required, flying without solar energy for two (optionally four) hours with a payload of up to 600g.
Vadim Tarasov, UAVOS investor and board member, said: ‘Using solar-powered aircraft for such missions is, in our opinion, most promising, since solar energy is sufficient to perform a continuous flight throughout the daylight hours.
‘Especially effective is the use of such UAVs for high-resolution orthomosaic imagery in large areas with a long flight time. For example, to successfully solve communication problems during long-distance monitoring missions of electrical power lines UAVOS uses the Iridium data satellite transceiver module.’
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