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- AEROSONDE: Small robotic aircraft for long-range environmental monitoring and surveillance. It has been developed especially for meteorological and environmental reconnaissance over oceanic and remote areas and in harsh conditions, for which its economy and flexibility will allow routine operations on a much wider scale than has been possible in the past. It has been extended to surveillance and other reconnaissance applications. The Aerosonde is being deployed to fill chronic gaps in the global upper-air sounding network, to conduct systematic surveillance of tropical cyclones and other severe weather, to undertake offshore surveillance and agricultural/biological surveys, and to obtain specialist observations, such as volcanic plumes. Miniaturisation and flexibility, fully robotic operation and remote command are the key factors in the Aerosonde success. We have proven that an aircraft weighing less than 15 kg can undertake completely autonomous missions of several thousand kilometres and several days duration. Technical Specifications: Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft Mark 3 Specifications Weight, wing span: 13-14 kg, 2.9 m Engine: 24 cc, Premium Unleaded Petrol, 1kw, fuel injected Navigation: GPS, DGPS, automatic storm/front tracking Operation Staff for Launch and Recovery 2-3: Controller, Engineer, Pilot/Maintenance Staff for Flight Operations: 1 Person for up to 3 aircraft Ground Equipment: Proprietary Staging Box, Personal Computer, GPS Antenna Flight: Fully autonomous, under Base Command Launch and Recovery: Launch from car roof rack (catapult option), land on belly, Autonomous or with pilot Ground & air communications: UHF or SatComms to Aerosonde, VHF to field staff and other aircraft , internet to command centre and customers. Performance Speed, Climb: 18 ? >32 ms-1, Climb >2.5 ms-1 Range, Endurance: >3000 km , >30Hrs Altitude Range: 100 m ? >6000 m (intermediate weight) Payload: Maximum 2 kg with full fuel load Standard Instrumentation Temperature, Pressure, Humidity, Wind 3 More info at "http://www.aerosonde.com/index.php"
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Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: AEROSONDE Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Aircraft Short_Name: AEROSONDE End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-08-21 Online_Resource: http://www.aerosonde.com/ Sample_Image: http://www.aerosonde.com/images/featurepics/snow.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1998-08-21 End_Group End_Group
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