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High-flying pseudosatellites get their day in the sun

Planes and airships that can soar through the stratosphere could enable new approaches to research.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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In April, if all goes to plan, a spindly uncrewed aeroplane with a wingspan wider than a jumbo jet will take flight in Puerto Rico. Powered by solar panels and soaring up to 20 kilometres high, the plane, called Odysseus, will test a new kind of high-altitude, long-duration flight — on which researchers will soon fly instruments.

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Nature 566, 308-309 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00561-8

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