Product profile
ApusDuo
ApusDuo is UAVOS's solar-powered high-altitude platform aircraft for long-duration stratospheric missions, carrying communications, sensing or other payloa...
Facts
- Company
- UAVOS
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- demonstrated
- Primary capability
- persistent_sensing
- Website
- https://www.uavos.com/products/fixed-wing-uavs/apusduo-atmospheric-satellite/
About ApusDuo
ApusDuo is UAVOS's solar-powered high-altitude platform aircraft for long-duration stratospheric missions, carrying communications, sensing or other payloads above conventional aviation traffic.
Market context
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Summary
Type: High-altitude platform UAV
Core: Solar-powered stratospheric aircraft
Function: Provides persistent airborne payload operation and communications coverage from the stratosphere
Audience: Telecommunications, earth-observation and research operators
Specifications
- maximum_takeoff_mass
- 43 kg
- mission_endurance
- Months of endurance stated for the stratospheric mission profile
- operating_altitude
- Approximately 20,000 m operating altitude m
- payload
- 2 kg
- platform_class
- Solar-powered high-altitude platform / atmospheric satellite
- propulsion
- Solar-electric fixed-wing propulsion
- wingspan
- 15 m
Operations
- Environment
- stratospheric_operations, outdoor_operations, remote_sites
- Primary user
- uav_integrators, telecommunications_operators, earth_observation_teams, researchers
- Role
- persistent_sensing, high_altitude_operations, communications_relay, payload_integration, autonomous_navigation
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, remote_supervision, payload_integration
- Mobility class
- solar_fixed_wing_uav, high_altitude_platform
- Product detail
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