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Thanks for sharing. Estimating air mass and solar irradiance are definitely interesting topics - I'll take a look at what you've put together!


Thanks, I've been training! ;)


Thanks!


Thanks, next stop is the stratosphere! :)


Thanks Lars - I have emailed you!


Our aim is to fly at higher altitudes than Solar Impulse/SkyDweller, which keeps us above the turbulent winds and cloud cover of the troposphere, and makes long endurance flight more reliable/less weather dependent. Our platform is also a lot smaller than SkyDweller, which helps keep costs much lower and opens some interesting new opportunities - for example, deploying lots of aircraft in a mesh network.

The Solar Impulse/SkyDweller lineage is very inspiring - what an amazing way to demonstrate how much you can do with solar power!


Thanks, wildfires inspired us to work on this technology, so we're excited to see it used in those applications too!


Thanks, it was a lot of fun!


Thanks - feel free to reach out if you have any lessons learned you think we should know about! Being a student of history is important for a project like this!


Absolutely, we think there are some really interesting use cases around imagery too - for exactly these reasons.


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