gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite
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Solar-electric atmospheric satellite
7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2019-07-14 · latest 2024-08-20
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I was doing some analysis of a solar-electric plane that can fly indefinitely: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite Seems feasible, never went past the analysis phase though :)
comment by gusgordon · 2024-08-20 · in Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data -
…I've been pretty obsessed with this idea for a while — here's an analysis I did a few years back: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite I got a minimum wingspan of around 8m for self-sustaining flight on the winter solstice…
comment by gusgordon · 2023-10-17 · in Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft -
…The goal is to determine the smallest aircraft configuration that can indefinitely sustain flight: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmospheric_satellite#readme
comment by gusgordon · 2021-10-11 · in Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing -
…plane ends up being able to fly a little higher, but not by much. See these notebooks for details: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmosat/blob/master/atmosat.ipy... https://github.com/gusgordon/electric_jet/blob/master/plane.... [1]:…
comment by gusgordon · 2019-11-11 · in Lithium-Sulfur Battery Project Aims to Double the Range of Electric Airplanes