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The Helios Prototype was the fourth and final aircraft developed as part of an evolutionary series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program. They were built to develop the technologies that would allow long-term, high-altitude aircraft to serve as atmospheric satellites, to perform atmospheric research tasks as well as serve as communications platforms. It was developed from the NASA Pathfinder and NASA Centurion aircraft.

helios erast aerovironment

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  1. NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Helios Prototype http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/FactSheets/FS-068-DFRC.html
  2. Helios Prototype fact sheet – old edition; archived at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20030605105551/http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Research/Erast/helios.html
  3. Investigation of the Helios Prototype Aircraft Mishap – Volume 1, T.E. Noll et al., January 2004 http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64317main_helios.pdf
  4. "Aviation and Space World Records". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016223325/http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=7354. Retrieved 14 October 2013. 
  5. "Helios Prototype Solar Aircraft Lost In Flight Mishap", Science Daily, July 1, 2003, accessed September 8, 2003 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030630111917.htm
  6. NASA Pathfinder fact sheet, archived at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20030810185046/http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets/FS-034-DFRC.html
  7. NASA Centurion Fact Sheet archived at archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20030628143415/http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactSheets/FS-056-DFRC.html
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