A solar-powered aircraft built by Airbus recently broke the record for the longest continuous flight. On its first outing, the unmanned Zephyr S stayed aloft for 25 days, 23 hours, and 57 minutes ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Airbus SE high-altitude surveillance and communications drone broke up in flight after its launch in September 2019 because of unstable weather conditions, the Australian ...

Airbus' Zephyr program has claimed another record, with a production model unmanned solar-powered aircraft touching down after more than 25 days in the air. That voyage is the longest unmanned flight ...

Aerospace firm Airbus has completed two 18-day stratospheric flights of its solar-powered aircraft, called Zephyr, 76,100 feet above the Earth. Zephyr's solar powered test flights in the stratosphere ...

Army Futures Command has taken an interest in the Zephyr drone. (Airbus) WASHINGTON — Testing of Airbus’ Zephyr drone unexpectedly concluded after completing a record 64 days aloft following an ...

Airbus Defence and Space announced on 23 April that it had launched the Zephyr 8 programme to develop the next generation of the world record setting Zephyr 7 UAS. The company added that it is ...

Zephyr performed a 64-day flight in the U.S. over summer 2022. Credit: Airbus LONDON—Airbus is spinning-off its high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) business as it seeks to begin offering commercial ...

For Airbus and its Zephyr S, the sky really is the limit – because any higher and this "high-altitude pseudo satellite" would have to be a spacecraft. Zephyr S, a solar-powered unmanned aircraft ...

Airbus' Zephyr breaks its own record for longest unmanned flight (Courtesy of Airbus Defence and Space). WASHINGTON – The solar-powered Zephyr drone beat its own record for time spent aloft as an ...

Airbus started series production of the Zephyr S high altitude pseudo-satellite at a new facility about 200 yards from where Farnborough 2018 was being held. (Airbus) FARNBOROUGH, England — With the ...

Airbus Zephyr did not achieve its goals of breaking a world record for the longest flight made by an aircraft, and the solar-powered drone crashed in Arizona after 64 days of sustained flight. The ...

Airbus Defence & Space has begun flight testing a scaled model of a larger twin-tailed variant of its Zephyr high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS). The Zephyr T has four times the payload capacity of ...