Re:Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude so...
by thadjones on Monday October 16, 2023 @05:05PM
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Very cool, glad to see interest in this space. How does this differ from SkyDweller?
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Re:Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude so...
by jthomaslm on Monday October 16, 2023 @07:01PM
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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!