Germany to Fly Sagitta – an Unmanned Flying Wing by 2015
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After 2 years of intense design work, the first parts of the extremely light-weight carbon fibre structure are now in production, and a dedicated system integration rig has been setup to start assembly of the individual avionic components and to perform the required hardware-in-the-loop simulations. The integration will span one year, and complete by the end of 2014.
In the project “Sagitta” Cassidian is conducting basic research into future Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies together with universities and research institutes. The Open Innovation Programme Sagitta consists of a total of seven research areas of UAS development: preliminary aircraft design, aerodynamics, flight control systems, communications and data processing, vision-based flight control and air-to-air refuelling, materials and structure, autonomous flight and mission control, simulation and systems integration. The development includes the construction of a flight demonstrator, the purpose of which is to verify the validity and feasibility of the theoretical research results. [via]
