A new record in flight

If you are curious about astronomy, perhaps you will like this news because the zephyr drone has been flying for 26 continuous days, breaking its own previous record of 25 days 23 hours and 57 minutes that it set in 2018.

This drone took off on June 15 from the yuma army test range in Arizona, these days it has flown across the US, headed south to the Gulf of Mexico and reached Belize.

These are the images of this drone, not of the flight in particular, but of what the drone is like, the Zephyr in English, a high-altitude pseudo-satellite, this ship has stratospheric flight, it works with solar energy, it weighs less than 75 kilograms and It reaches more than 21,000 meters high.

That puts them in a very quiet area above the atmosphere to avoid commercial air traffic that normally flies between 10,000 and 12,000 meters and also puts it above storms and adverse weather conditions.

It is designed to carry a payload of 24 kilos, which allows it to transport equipment for environmental monitoring communications and also military services, since the military pays a lot for technological development, the world is made like this.

The manufacturer is the European company airbus and the important thing is that it is good news for astronomy fans because the Zephyr is a pseudo-satellite, that is, it aims to replace space satellites, it is a potential alternative to the constellations of satellites that they orbit at 500 km kilo sorry they orbit at 500 kilometers high.

The Zephyr, being much lower and therefore closer to the sources of transmitters and also receivers of communications, can be a very interesting alternative, because it would also increase the connection speed and all of this would offer a communications service to a very competitive price with respect to the construction and putting into orbit of a space satellite and also in case of problem you can take the ship down and repair it calmly, it is a very elegant alternative.

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