The AeroVironment Pathfinder was the first of a lineage of solar powered unmanned aircraft that AeroVironment built for the NASA ERAST program. It began as the secret HALSOL aircraft, a battery powered flying wing that flew in 1983, was revived in 1993 with solar cells and was renamed Pathfinder when NASA took it on in 1994. With a thirty metre wingspan and electric motors, it set an unofficial solar aircraft altitude record of 71,530 feet in 1997. It was rebuilt as the longer winged Pathfinder-Plus, which reached 80,201 feet in 1998 and paved the way for the Centurion and Helios aircraft.
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AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles
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under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program
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unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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The HALSOL prototype first flew in June 1983.
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solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles
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Pathfinder was powered by eight electric motors
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AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles
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under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program
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