The sheer scale of the Indo-Pacific theater—spanning more than 100 million square kilometers of ocean, dispersed island ...

A solar-powered drone has been lost at sea after a record-breaking flight lasting eight days between late April and early May. The crash also marks the untimely demise of the pioneering aircraft Solar ...

Skydweller is a solar-powered drone that can fly for up to three months without landing, with researchers hoping to one day achieve much longer flight times.

The Navy, working with Skydweller Aero, just reached a major milestone in clean-energy aviation. Its solar-powered drone, known as Skydweller, flew for 73 hours straight without needing fuel. The test ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The solar-powered drones market has emerged as a highly innovative segment within the drone industry, driven by increasing demand for sustainable, ...

A breakthrough in aviation is taking shape through a collaboration between U.S. startup Skydweller Aero and French defense electronics company Thales. Their joint mission is to build a solar-powered ...

Skydweller CEO Robert Miller describes exactly how the aircraft was lost—and why the future prospects for perpetual solar drones still look good.

The father and son team behind the world's fastest quadcopter we featured last year has now built what essentially looks like a flying photovoltaic panel, in a bid to create a drone that's powered by ...

The acquisition of Solar Drone strengthens VisionWave’s autonomous mission systems and energy-infrastructure automation capabilities, adding a field-proven robotic platform for persistent, large-area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian FPV drone. Photo: Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov on Telegram Russian forces have started using FPV drones equipped with solar ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to require some serious ...

Dominion’s drones, flown by pilots, inspect power lines, substations and areas of power plants that are hard for humans to ...