Drones

Solar Drones To Function As Satellites

Alliance Lp Drones Ltd., was founded in 2012 and a year later made a strategic decision to specialize in the design, development and manufacturing of solar unmanned atmospheric platforms, a new and innovative market niche in the unmanned sector, joining companies such as; Facebook and Google (Titan Aerospace).

Alliance has since developed three different platform designs capable of carrying variable and interchangeable payloads, starting at approximately 100 Kilogram of telecom payload with their basic model. These platforms will operate at altitudes between 65,000 ft (20 km) to 80,000 (24 km) for up to five years if required.

Conventional Satellites technologies comes with some drawbacks: satellites are expensive and difficult to manufacture, additionally propelling these vehicles into orbit is also a very costly, complex and labor intensive process. Once in orbit satellites can’t be reclaimed for maintenance, payload recovery or any other technical or logistical requirements.