Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Luminati: Perpetual Solar-powered Flight Possible
Applications for perpetually flying solar aircraft include global intelligence gathering and internet distribution.

Luminati Aerospace claimed this week that its Substrata solar-powered aircraft can remain aloft in the stratosphere indefinitely via automated vortex seeking formation flight. The company said computer simulations that validated the theory were verified by flight data collected when its solar-powered aircraft intercepted and then flew in formation trail with Solar Impulse-2 shortly after it departed from New York on the transatlantic portion of its historic round-the-world flight in 2016.