accord to Flight Global , DARPA is close to award a contract to make an remote-controlled aircraft that can remain in the air for up to 5 years at a time . DARPA describes the “ Vulture ” project as a “ persistent pseudo - orbiter capability in an aircraft software system . ” In other words , the aircraft can vacillate over a single area , narcing , communicating , or surveying for age at a metre .
As with most lofty end , there are major obstacles to contest with . First and foremost , the designers are blend in to have to figure out how to power such an aircraft over the class of these long commission . Oh , and it will have to do it while carry a 1000 British pound payload in the fearsome idle words at a 60,000—90,000 feet . No problem right ? As for the design , the Vulture will most likely draw on NASA designs like the one pictured above , but there is no authoritative time table on when we might actually see a working craft . [ escape GlobalviaCNETviaDVICE ]
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