Sentences with phrase «solar plane designed»

After touching down at the helipad, he sprinted to the cavernous hangar and swung open its blue door to find the splintered remains of a critical piece of his latest engineering endeavor: part of the 236 - foot - long carbon fiber wing of a solar plane designed to circumnavigate the globe.

Not exact matches

In designing their solar plane, Piccard and Borschberg and their team faced a structural challenge.

And quite a goal it was: designing a plane light enough to run on solar energy alone, but strong enough to carry pilots, provisions and batteries storing energy to fly through the night.

From then on, the team focused on making necessary improvements for the plane's successor, Solar Impulse 2 (aka HB - SIB), which they have been designing since the prototype was making its first tentative hops.

Michael Brown designed and implemented the Caltech Wide - Area Survey, which observed an area of 20,000 square degrees in the plane of the Solar System.

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In the case of the LIDAR data used in solar design, the scanner is typically outfitted on a plane to map the topography of the land below, but LIDAR has other applications as well.

Whether it comes from satellites, drones, a new construction blueprint overlaid on a map, or a low - flying plane, Aurora's solar design and sales process starts with imagery.