Unmanned Aircraft form NASA

A lot of news we're heard about unmanned technologies. But most of them are in aircrafts, not so much in vehicles. This aircraft was built by NASA and named ‘Ikhana’ — used for imaging wildfires in California, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Images collected from the different sensors on board are transmitted via satellite to a ground station where they are analyzed and transmitted as a Google Earth overlay to fire experts.

The 6 Millions Ikhana aircraft, which has a wingspan of 66 feet and is 36 feet long, can collect data during flights lasting up to 30 hours without refueling. You can see above a picture of Ikhana flying over California. “With its sensor pod under its left wing, NASA’s remotely piloted Ikhana unmanned aircraft cruises over California during the Western States Fire Mission.” (Credit: Jim Ross, for NASA, August 9, 2007)