{"id":38678,"date":"2016-01-22T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/\u200bnew.iter.es\/prontas\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:46:42","slug":"prontas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/prontas\/","title":{"rendered":"PRONTAS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This project led by ITER and involving the UPM through the Higher Technical School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, and the company Aernnova Engineering Solutions, it aims to build a 16-metre-wide solar aircraft capable of flying autonomously. To this end, ITER is responsible for the energy and autonomous navigation system, UPM for aerodynamic design and Aernnova for structural design. The aircraft is powered exclusively by solar energy captured through photovoltaic cells that cover its wings, and has a storage system that allows it to fly at night and in low radiation conditions. It is intended to be a fully autonomous aircraft, capable of flying uninterrupted for the duration of its mission, with a navigation system capable of following a pre-defined or controlled trajectory from a station on the ground. Both the navigation system and the technique of laminating photovoltaic cells in wings have been developed by ITER in previous projects related to PRONTAS (EVAS and PROAVISOL). <\/p>\n

Among the planned applications for this type of aircraft are Earth observation missions, surveillance (borders, fires, roads, large events), or the management of any type of catastrophe, when, for example, access to affected areas has been destroyed or human access may be dangerous.<\/p>\n

Technical Specifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Wing geometric data<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Winspan\n<\/td>\n16 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mean aerodynamic chord\n<\/td>\n0.54 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wing area\n<\/td>\n8,65 m2<\/sup><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Propulsion system<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Motor\n<\/td>\n4x High-efficiency brushless motor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Propeller\n<\/td>\n4x Carbon fiber; 22\u2033 diameter; high efficiency”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Energy storage<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Lithium-Ion Batteries\n<\/td>\n8x 14.4V; 120Ah; 255 Wh\/kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight\n<\/td>\n28 kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Solar panels<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Power\n<\/td>\n4x 412W (17,5 V; 23,5 A)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Efficiency\n<\/td>\n24% (max. altitude)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Solars cells<\/td>\nMonocrystalline silicon; 156 x 156 mm; 200 micron thickness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Materials and structure<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Components<\/td>\nCarbon \/ Rohacell \/ Epoxy composites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Total weight\n<\/td>\n102,185 kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Links of interest:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Wind tunnel<\/a><\/div>\n
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Electronics laboratory<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This project led by ITER and involving the UPM through the Higher Technical School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering, and the company Aernnova Engineering Solutions, it aims to build a 16-metre-wide solar aircraft capable of flying autonomously. To this end, ITER is responsible for the energy and autonomous navigation system, UPM for aerodynamic design and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,209,213],"tags":[214],"class_list":{"0":"post-38678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activities","8":"category-projects","9":"category-renewable-energies","10":"tag-renewable-energies-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iter.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}