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- AtlantikSolar AS-3 after its 26-hour fully autonomous solar-powered SaR mission.
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- T=26h: Final approach during the autonomous landing.
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- T=13h. Ground Station on the next morning. We’ve received first sun here.
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- T=5h. Live-streamed thermal camera images with annotation. Note the victim that can easily be detected.
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- T=5h. The airplane is seen loitering in the top left, performing the SolAIR Search-and-Rescue mission.
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- Live-streamed RGB camera image. Our tents are clearly visible.
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- T=0h. Autonomous (hand-) launch.
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- T=0 hours, Handlaunch of AS-2 for the record attempt
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- T=81.5 hours. A happy team after a 81.5 hours record flight.
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- Hand launch
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- T=36 hours, flying towards the night. Will we make it?
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- T=70 hours, sunrise on the third and last day.
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- T=8 hours, monitoring the aircraft and its energy generation and storage system. Batteries are fully charged here.
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- T=81.5 hours. Landed.
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- T=81 hours, thunderstorm clouds and winds up to 60 km/h make the landing very challenging.
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- T=41 hours. Drawing circles into the night using the onboard position indicator lights.
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- AtlantikSolar 2 (AS-2) – Safely on the ground after its successful 28 hour flight.
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- Approaching for landing.
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- AtlantikSolar 2 (AS-2) – Safely on the ground after its successful 28 hour flight.
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- Reconstructed 3-D map
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- Infrared-camera view from AtlantikSolar – the potential victims (humans) can be seen in the lower left side of the image
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- 2-D reconstructed map of Marche-En-Famenne, Belgium
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- Figure 1: AtlantikSolar UAS in its mapping configuration – i.e. with an optical and infrared sensors installed below the wing
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- AtlantikSolar AS-S1 after the 12 hour continuous flight test in Rafz/CH.
