The Airbus Zephyr S unmanned aircraft beat the record it set in 2018, flight-tracking data suggests.
Airbus has broken the record for the longest flight of an unmanned aircraft, flight-tracking data suggests.The unmanned craft flies high in the atmosphere, to avoid commercial air traffic and adverse weather.
Flight data shows the aircraft flew from the test range in Arizona to Belize in Central America, and then back again.A spokesperson for the Assured Position, Navigation and Timing/Space office of the United States Army Futures Command - a branch of the US Army -are "intended to test the UAV's energy storage capacity, battery longevity, solar panel efficiency, and station-keeping abilities".
"They've flown over the range from 2018 when it set the previous record," he said. "It's transmitted out to this area and beyond line-of-sight communications, and it's gone somewhere else.He said this opened the door for practical uses of the aircraft, such as military applications or even disaster relief.
"It comes back to you," said Mr Robinson. "You can upgrade sensors on it, you can switch the payloads out, you can upgrade it with a new technology."
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