The world's first solar powered aircraft completed a major milestone today when it completed an overnight flight for the first time. The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, with André Borschberg at its controls, ...

The Solar Impulse, an airplane traveling across the United States using only solar power, is in Phoenix today, after reaching Arizona from California Saturday. It took the plane about 20 hours to ...

A U.S. startup called Overview Energy successfully carried out a wireless power-beaming test using a moving aircraft in November 2025. A Cessna plane flying over Pennsylvania, roughly 16,404 feet ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 metres, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos plane made the ...

A solar-powered airplane has landed in Pennsylvania, about 17 hours after it took off from the Ohio hometown of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 ...

A breakthrough in aviation is taking shape through a collaboration between U.S. startup Skydweller Aero and French defense electronics company Thales. Their joint mission is to build a solar-powered ...

Solar Impulse uses SOURIAU composite connectors made of composite material with special metallization to be the lightest possible connectors, but those that can also meet the required EMI protection ...

The SolarStratos, a Swiss stratospheric solar aircraft, reached a personal record altitude of 8,224 meters but fell short of the current world record for a solar-powered flight. The Swiss project team ...