Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft
Hey, HN! We're James and Cyriel, co-founders of Radical. We're making an autonomous solar-powered aircraft designed for continuous flight in the stratosphere. Our 20 ft. prototype recently flew nonstop for over 24 hours, which you can see in this video: https://youtu.be/E6oDxQYEksc (edit—warning, there are rapidly flashing lights starting just after 1m, in case you're sensitive to that). Our website is at https://www.radicalaero.com/ , but it's pretty bare. If you use LinkedIn, we have a few more posts at https://www.linkedin.com/company/radicalaero . Our aircraft is designed to fly over specific areas for months, carrying various payloads for tasks like imagery, sensing, and telecommunications. What we’re building behaves like a drone in some ways, and like a satellite in other ways. Much like satellites, we’re able t
Why it failed
Hey, HN! We're James and Cyriel, co-founders of Radical. We're making an autonomous solar-powered aircraft designed for continuous flight in the stratosphere. Our 20 ft. prototype recently flew nonstop for over 24 hours, which you can see in this video: https:/
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jthomaslm
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews