Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos ...

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U.S. tech startup Skydweller Aero has teamed up with Thales, a French electronics company specializing in defense systems, to develop a new maritime surveillance drone that can stay aloft far longer ...

The Navy, working with Skydweller Aero, just reached a major milestone in clean-energy aviation. Its solar-powered drone, known as Skydweller, flew for 73 hours straight without needing fuel. The test ...

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A Skydweller solar-powered drone just successfully completed a series of test flights with U.S. Navy funding. This time the longest flight was ‘just’ 22.5 hours, but in operation the aircraft will fly ...

Solar Impulse 2 is probably the most ambitious project ever undertaken in the search for an alternative to internal combustion engines to power an airplane. And its success will be dependent on using ...

Solar Impulse 2, which completed a historic round-the-world trip in 2016 without using jet fuel, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico recently. Sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 crashed recently, despite ...

The world's first solar powered aircraft completed a major milestone today when it completed an overnight flight for the first time. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, with André Borschberg at its controls, ...