What Is A Solar Drone?
Solar-powered drones are drones powered by solar energy.
In recent years, with continuous breakthroughs in technologies such as flight control, navigation, and communication, China's drone industry has also achieved rapid development results. Not only are drone applications more and more frequent, but also types of drones. And the products are becoming more and more abundant.
The development of drones has attracted attention. In recent years, with continuous breakthroughs in technologies such as flight control, navigation, and communication, China's drone industry has also achieved rapid development results. Not only are drone applications more and more frequent, but also types of drones. And the products are becoming more and more abundant.
Solar-powered drones, as the name suggests, are drones powered by solar energy. This type of drone is called a never-landing aircraft because it uses clean and sustainable energy, while flying in the stratosphere at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and is made of light and thin materials that are as hard as steel. Maintain long-term stable flight at high altitude, and basically zero emissions during continuous navigation, and the environmental impact is relatively small.
So, what is the use of solar-powered drones? It is understood that due to the characteristics of strong maneuverability, good load capacity, flexibility and reliability, and extensive operation, solar-powered drones can actually play their own value in many fields such as natural disaster early warning, high-altitude inspection and supervision, emergency rescue and disaster relief, and mobile communications.
Among them, the value and application space in communication is particularly huge. In the past, general communication signals were transmitted by communication satellites, but they were costly, had a limited service life, and could not automatically return to the earth, so they could easily become space junk when they died. Solar-powered drones can be loaded with base stations to operate, and navigation is stable and sustainable. It can be landed at any time for maintenance and reuse, so it can replace traditional satellites for communication services.
In addition, compared to satellite communications, solar-powered drone communications also have the advantages of flexibility, maneuverability, and precise coverage. For a long time, in remote mountainous areas, offshore islands, and other areas, it is extremely difficult to build base stations due to the restrictions of the terrain environment, so satellite communication is difficult to cover. However, relying on solar-powered drones, the base station can be placed at an altitude of 10,000 meters and get rid of the terrain. Constrained by other factors, it is easier to satisfy communication services.
At the same time, instant messaging and emergency communications are also important for some areas prone to natural disasters. Once the traditional satellite communication is interrupted, it is difficult to carry out maintenance and emergency rescue. In contrast, the communication provided by solar-powered drones is not only less affected by natural disasters, but even if interrupted by the impact, they can easily land at the airport for maintenance and return to battle. Therefore, solar-powered drone communications can better make up for emergency needs.
There are many reasons for the commercial difficulties of solar UAVs in China, such as high technical requirements, insufficient battery life, control, and intelligence; difficulty in mastering new materials and new technologies required in the process of production and optimization; failure to achieve mass production The financial pressure of the enterprise is too great; the test risk is too large, and once the test is damaged or crashed under the high cost, it is easy to suffer heavy losses, etc. If these problems are not solved, it is difficult for the application to really land.
In this context, my country has already issued many policies to clearly encourage the development of solar-powered drones; related companies and research institutes are also actively cooperating to jointly promote the technology research and development of solar-powered drones. Through the efforts of production, education, research, and politics, we will jointly provide a favorable environment for the development of solar drones and solve related problems. Believe that the era of drone communications is coming soon!
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