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Solar Storm is the result of a conceptual design study for a Hybrid-Solar cell powered MAV. And as far as I can search through the internet Solar Storm is the smallest solar MAV (which is autonomous) in the world.(please correct me if I am wrong...)
more coming...
Specifications
- Span: 500 mm
- Weight: 300 g
Performance
Solar-Storm has only 2 test flights yet. First to tune :) and second to measure the endurance.
The numbers we get from the first flight test (by using only 730mAH battery):
- Endurance: 53 minutes
- Average level-flight consumption: 11-12 W
- Average power from Solar cells: ~4-5 W
Note: It was a partially cloudy day, sun was hiding behind the clouds for 20 minutes of the flight.
Solar-Storm will be capable of flying more than 145 minutes at its designed conditions. But not tested yet :)