Bertrand Piccard, President of Solar Impulse and internationally renowned lecturer will be presenting his project to fly around the world in a solar airplane during the World Future Energy Summit taking place in Abu Dhabi, 18-21 January 2010.
Bertand Piccard will be among the speakers’ of a session at the World Future Energy Summit entitled “Achieving [...]
The Solar Impulse project is pursuing the objective of circumnavigating the Earth powered only by sunlight. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has played a significant role in the development of this visionary flying technology platform, which has now been awarded the Braunschweig Research Prize.
The challenge: large wingspan and extremely [...]
Solar Impulse, the innovative Swiss aerospace company officially unveiled their prototype solar airplane. The Solar Impulse HB-SLA is completely powered by wing mounted PV solar panels which explains the huge area of the wingspan design matching that of a Boeing 747-400. Over 12,000 solar cells cover the outer surface of the wing providing DC electricity [...]
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Thanks to a Swiss communications company the entire world will be able to follow all the latest developments of the one of the worlds coolest aerospace projects since Orville and Wilbur Wright. It is not the launch of a space shuttle or another celebrity in space or news of a new stealth technology long range bomber [...]
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