solar drone

  A brand new business drone firm began by a group of Stanford PhDs is introducing a radical new business answer.  At InterDrone subsequent month, CA startup FlightWave will debut the Edge drone – an autonomous, battery-powered endurance drone which might leverage solar energy for elevated vary. The Edge represents …

Photo: Sally Chapman/MIT Researchers at MIT have developed a gasoline powered drone with a 5 day flight time.  The glider-like drone is designed to hold a communications payload that might set up a non permanent telecommunications community for catastrophe reduction. The thought of utilizing drones to ascertain non permanent networks …

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is shutting down the solar-powered drone program – Titan – run by division X, which was designed to provide Internet access to remote areas of the world. The shut down, reports Business Insider, is “the latest example of the company’s efforts to cut back its ambitious ‘moonshots.’” …