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High-altitude solar drones have a hard time making it through winter nights. We show that by planning a path that collects more solar energy and stores it by climbing during the day, the final battery charge can be increased.

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This page is a summary of: Dynamic Optimization of High-Altitude Solar Aircraft Trajectories Under Station-Keeping Constraints, Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, March 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/1.g003737.
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