Thursday, June 30, 2005
Liquid Hydrogen UAV
From the same company that brought you the Wasp MAV, Aerovironment announced yesterday that they have successfully completed the world's first liquid hydrogen powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight tests. From the press release: " AeroVironment's Global Observer High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) platform will be able to operate at 65,000 feet for over a week with a flexible payload-carrying capacity of up to 1,000 pounds." Applications include government and military surveillance operations, communication relays, and the potential for persistent real-time imagery of wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. More pictures here.
source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/29/2235219&tid=126&tid=216
source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/29/2235219&tid=126&tid=216
# posted by dark master : 6/30/2005 09:19:00 AM
