{"id":12542,"date":"2020-07-28T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=12542"},"modified":"2020-07-28T14:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T21:30:05","slug":"solarstratos-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/solarstratos-returns-to-service\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarStratos Returns to Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

SolarStratos<\/a>, a mission envisioned by Rapha\u00ebl \u00a0Domjan<\/a> and an airplane designed by Calin Gologan,<\/a>\u00a0 returns to the skies after suffering a literal break in its program in 2018.<\/p>\n

During a series of tests that put increasingly heavy loads on the wings, its left wing broke with what was called a \u201ctechnical damage.\u201d\u00a0 This type of breakage during stress testing is not uncommon, especially on what are special machines such as SolarStratos and Solar Impulse.\u00a0 Solar Impulse 2 suffered a similar break when its newly-designed wing was being tested.\u00a0 As noted, this type of setback takes the team back to the drawing board, but also besets them with new reflections on their ongoing decisions.\u00a0 If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.<\/p>\n