MDA Plans To Use Photovoltaic Cells for High-Altitude Airship
Credit: U.S. ARMY NATICK SOLDIER CENTER
The technology that produces electricity from sunlight could soon be in use by the Pentagon as a low-cost, high-efficiency source of energy for an experimental airship. The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) high-altitude airship prototype will use photovoltaic cells for propulsion and other functions...
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