Long Term Surveillance via Solar Powered UAV
Project number:
22095
Sponsor:
NASA
Academic year:
2021-2022
Team Sky High designed an affordable, fully autonomous, solar-powered UAV capable of one month flight time at an altitude of 10,000 feet or higher. The UAV boasts a 40-megapixel camera and a communications bandwidth of 256 kilobits per second or greater, plus GPS tracking and telemetry capabilities.
The full-scale model has a wingspan of 12 meters and a chord length of 0.5 meters, with an overall mass estimate of 50 kg. The prototype scale is 25% of the full-scale model with a mass of approximately 12.5 kg. Flying at a speed of 13 meters per second, the UAV can complete 15 orbits of a 500-meter radius circle of operation in one hour.
The full-scale model has a wingspan of 12 meters and a chord length of 0.5 meters, with an overall mass estimate of 50 kg. The prototype scale is 25% of the full-scale model with a mass of approximately 12.5 kg. Flying at a speed of 13 meters per second, the UAV can complete 15 orbits of a 500-meter radius circle of operation in one hour.
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