MOSCOW, August 2. / TASS /. Tests of Russia’s first high-altitude unmanned vehicle, the so-called atmospheric satellites, were successful. This was reported on Tuesday the newspaper “Izvestia” .
The tests were carried Foundation for Advanced Studies (FPI) and the company “Tiber”. The unit was in the air non-stop for two days (50 hours) at an altitude of nine thousand meters. For more information about the technical characteristics of atmospheric satellite FPI did not disclose, but we know that the prototype has a wingspan of 9 meters and a weight of 12 kg, it is made of materials based on carbon fibers. As explained by technical Director of “Tiber” Sergei Tytsyk, high-altitude unmanned solar-powered called atmospheric companion, because it can carry out part of the spacecraft functions are in low Earth orbit.
“Atmospheric satellite can perform long mission for years barrazhiruya over the expanse of the oceans on the air currents over the territories to the lack of airfield infrastructure, sparsely populated border areas, maritime borders, taking and relaying information to both civilian and military targets “, – said Sergey Tytsyk edition. According to him, the device allows you to create a network of autonomous repeater radio and video signals over almost the entire country, and especially in the Arctic region, in the summer. As the CTO “Tiber”, atmospheric satellites can be in the future to replace some satellite systems, production and availability of space which is much more expensive.
LLC “Tiber” is a research and production enterprise specializing in industrial systems automatically control of mobile units. It produces a full line of all elements of the automatic control system – from the ultra-light (0.2 kg) to heavy (2800 kg) unmanned aerial objects of any type
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