Whether on Earth or in space, autonomous energy is critical in order to keep power systems running independently for extended periods of time, particularly in remote or unpredictable environments.
Well this article is full of semi-inaccuracies. Big if true, but I’m having some doubts based on what is in that article. I hope they succeed with this.
For example they say that the quadcopter performed multiple flight-charge-flight cycles with no mention at all of what those cycles consisted of performance or time wise. 5 seconds of flight 10 minutes of charge would be pretty useless.
The state of charge graph makes it look like 22min of charging for around 1min flight time. (Pretty rough estimates since the chart doesn’t have grid lines.)
So the title is rather misleading as technically any tiny array of cells strapped to a quadcopter could eventually charge it enough for a flight.
The development is cool though. Those are very light weight cells, but can we please chill with the clickbait.
Well this article is full of semi-inaccuracies. Big if true, but I’m having some doubts based on what is in that article. I hope they succeed with this.
For example they say that the quadcopter performed multiple flight-charge-flight cycles with no mention at all of what those cycles consisted of performance or time wise. 5 seconds of flight 10 minutes of charge would be pretty useless.
The state of charge graph makes it look like 22min of charging for around 1min flight time. (Pretty rough estimates since the chart doesn’t have grid lines.)
So the title is rather misleading as technically any tiny array of cells strapped to a quadcopter could eventually charge it enough for a flight.
The development is cool though. Those are very light weight cells, but can we please chill with the clickbait.
Yes I assumed it meant they could fly continuously.