Qinetiq Mercator
Qinetiq Mercator 1 is a joint British/Belgian remote sensing system utilising a modified version of the Qinetiq Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a platform.
The reconnaissance pod was designed by the Belgian research institute VITO. It was called Medusa. The airplane is designed to provide remote sensing for flood management, disaster relief, fire spotting and environmental and agricultural monitoring.
Mercator was first tested in 2012.
Technical aspects
- Weight 32 kg
- Wingspan: 18 m[1]
gollark: What matters is which computers get their responses to you *first*, and I don't think more modems helps with that. It might, I'm not sure.
gollark: 512 ender modems for listening to all channels.
gollark: Not reliably, and possibly.
gollark: (this is not sarcasm; it can't; it's not designed stupidly)
gollark: I mean, it's not as if one computer with a modem can just mess up everyone's GPS requests to be whatever they want.
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