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[pepijndevos]

I assume the video at the top is of a smaller prototype?

Making something that flies on solar power is not that hard, but I wonder how they are going to deal with mechanical and electronic failures.

On the timescale of years, something will break or crash, or suffer from PEBCAK

"you’re paying some dude to watch the payload and make sure the aircraft doesn’t do anything stupid.”

[_ofdw → pepijndevos]

It's certainly possible to make bearings and whatnot that last for enormous lifetimes. It's all a question of cost.

When your buyer is the ridiculously over-funded US Military, you can afford to charge quite a bit more.