{"id":525684,"date":"2010-04-13T04:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.55014"},"modified":"2010-04-13T04:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T08:53:18","slug":"the-skate-drone-powered-with-thermal-and-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525684","title":{"rendered":"The Skate drone, powered with thermal and solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/13\/Skate-drone.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/13\/Skate-drone.php','popup','width=550,height=413,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0410\/13\/Skate-drone-thumb-450x337.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Skate-drone.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPowering up drones for longer journeys has remained a matter of concern before. However, this may soon be easier, with technology being developed by Aurora Flight Sciences, which has been awarded a contract by the Pentagon for the project. The firm is currently developing a drone platform known as the Skate which you can unfold out of a backpack (easily portable) and launch instantly for navigation.<\/p>\n<p>To power this up, lithium batteries incorporated in the wings with solar panels on the top and infrared photovoltaic cells for night-time recharging on the lower panel will soak in the sun\u2019s energy. Solar energy will satisfy 95% of the Skate\u2019s power needs. The remaining 5% will be powered by thermal energy. The company also plans to integrate a navigation system similar to the sonar systems bats use. When developed, these drones will help navigation technology with a push forward. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-04\/micro-drone-would-scavenge-solar-and-thermal-energy-day-and-night\">Popsci<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powering up drones for longer journeys has remained a matter of concern before. However, this may soon be easier, with technology being developed by Aurora Flight Sciences, which has been awarded a contract by the Pentagon for the project. The firm is currently developing a drone platform known as the Skate which you can unfold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525684","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\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}