{"id":164614,"date":"2010-01-11T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/korea-aerospace-university-and-kist-plan-solar-powered-uav\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:16:29","slug":"korea-aerospace-university-and-kist-plan-solar-powered-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/164614","title":{"rendered":"Korea Aerospace University and KIST plan solar-powered UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/11\/uav_5YlrF_69.jpg\" alt=\"uav\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Zero-emission UAV designed to fly on solar energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kau.ac.kr\/english\/\">Korea Aerospace University<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kist.re.kr\/En\/index.asp\">Korea Institute of Science and Technology<\/a> have signed a MoU to develop a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle that can hover at an altitude of 20,000m for several months before landing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UAV will use KAU\u2019s design technology for mid-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles and KIST\u2019s solar cell power generation to provide all the electricity the drone requires. The UAV will have a wingspan of 40m, to which solar cells will be attached.<\/p>\n<p>Solar panels will generate all the electricity the drone needs to power its motor-operated propeller. These photovoltaic panels will also store energy in a Li-ion battery pack to power the UAV after dark. The first prototype of the UAV with a 4m wingspan is expected to be flown on a pilot run by 2012, after which the full-sized UAV will take on the skies. <\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:MQ-9_Reaper_in_flight_(2007).jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaittimes.com\/story\/6601\/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-developed-solely-korean-technologies\">Korea IT Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Zero-emission UAV designed to fly on solar energy. Korea Aerospace University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have signed a MoU to develop a solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle that can hover at an altitude of 20,000m for several months before landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}