{"id":85005,"date":"2018-11-22T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/huge-high-flying-pseudo-satellite-will-soon-take-to-the-skies"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:02:53","slug":"huge-high-flying-pseudo-satellite-will-soon-take-to-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/huge-high-flying-pseudo-satellite-will-soon-take-to-the-skies","title":{"rendered":"Huge, high-flying \u2018pseudo-satellite\u2019 will soon take to the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huge-high-flying-pseudo-satellite-will-soon-take-to-the-skies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than an ordinary aerial drone but not quite a satellite, a huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/57559410\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/t\/solar-plane-takes-record--hour-flight-across-pacific\/\">solar-powered airplane<\/a> with three tails and wings wider than a jumbo jet\u2019s will soon be taking to the skies.<\/p>\n<p>Odysseus, developed by Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassas, Virginia, is one of the largest unpiloted aircraft ever built \u2014 and one of the lightest. It has a 243-foot wingspan but weighs less than a small car, the company says. Its six electrically powered propellers will be driven by energy from hundreds of solar panels that cover the aircraft\u2019s exterior or from banks of rechargeable batteries on board, depending on the available sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>With a top speed of 100 miles an hour, Odysseus won\u2019t be very fast. But it\u2019s designed to soar to altitudes above 60,000 feet and stay aloft for months at a time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/22\/huge-high-flying-pseudo-satellite-will-soon-take-skies-ncna938946\">https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/22\/huge-high-flying-pseudo-...ncna938946<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than an ordinary aerial drone but not quite a satellite, a huge solar-powered airplane with three tails and wings wider than a jumbo jet\u2019s will soon be taking to the skies. Odysseus, developed by Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassas, Virginia, is one of the largest unpiloted aircraft ever built \u2014 and one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,45,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-finance","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}