Solar Impulse grounded until 2016 due to battery damage; team studying better thermal management

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By mmillikinJul 16, 2015, 6:09 am124 pts
Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. Following this longest and most difficult leg of the…

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