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SpaceX. Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline. The challenge – SolarStratos. After having made the first round-the-world trip powered by solar energy and having demonstrated that it is possible to travel in this autonomous way using renewable energy, it seems to me that it is necessary to go even further and overtake what has been achieved with fossil fuels.

The challenge – SolarStratos

It was when we were crossing the Atlantic on board PlanetSolar that the idea of fulfilling the mythical flight of Icarus and approaching space by using solar energy was born. The idea matured: an international team was formed and today it is our next challenge. It is an ambitious adventure carrying great risks but it will permit us, once again, to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy. This new eco-adventure will be on a solar plane, marketable, modified for this stratospheric flight. ESA/Hubble. Home. Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire.