Titan Aerospace

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Titan Aerospace is an American aerospace company based in Albuquerque . Since 2013 the company has been led by the former Microsoft manager Vern Raburn. In April 2014 Titan Aerospace announced its acquisition by Google Inc. announced.

Products

The company manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles under the name Atmosat . The so-called “atmospheric satellites” (Solar-Powered Atmospheric Satellite Drones), which travel up to 20 kilometers in altitude, can perform functions that are typical of satellites, such as monitoring weather and fire or taking pictures. Equipped with a solar drive, according to the company, they can fly continuously for up to five years and cover four million kilometers in the process.

Types

  • Solara 50, with a wingspan of 50 meters and a length of 15 meters, was presented at the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems trade fair in Washington . Solara 50 can take a payload of 32 kilograms.
  • Solara 60, for over 100 kg payload.

The Solara Atmosat platform offers customers around the world real-time images of the earth, voice and data services, navigation and mapping services, and monitoring systems from the atmosphere. The systems are able to provide coverage over 17,800 square kilometers, so a single Solara drone has a greater range than 100 terrestrial cell towers.

Purchase through google

According to Manager Magazin at the beginning of March 2014, Facebook should invest 60 million dollars in Titan Aerospace. As Techcrunch magazine also reported, Facebook wants to use the drones to provide affordable network access to areas without an internet connection. In mid-April 2014, it was finally announced that Google had bought the company. The company's competencies are to be used in the context of Project Loon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vern Raburn as Chairman and CEO - Titan Aerospace. ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / titanaerospace.com
  2. ↑ Google buys drone supplier Titan Aerospace . In: Cashy's blog . Cashy's blog. April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Google Acquires Titan Aerospace, The Drone Company Pursued By Facebook ( English ) In: Titan Aerospace Homepage . Titan Aerospace. April 14, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
  4. ^ Titan to Hold a Press Conference In DC at AUVSI. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / titanaerospace.com
  5. ↑ Facebook will participate in the drone company on manager-magazin.de, March 2014.
  6. ↑ Facebook Buying Drone Maker Titan Aerospace March 4, 2014.
  7. ↑ Google buys Titan Aerospace of Moriarty on abqjournal.com.
  8. ↑ Global Internet supply - Google enters the drone business , on spiegel.de.