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Solar Impulse 2 Completes Pacific Ocean Crossing

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The fully solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 left Hawaii last week our time and safely landed at Moffett Airfield in California on Sunday, finally completing the crossing of the Pacific Ocean and bagging a few (pending) world records in the process.

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Watch the Solar Impulse 2 sun-powered airplane take off for the first time in 9 months

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Today, Solar Impulse 2 will take off from Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii for the next leg of its record-breaking flight around the world. The team anticipates taking off at 6-6:30AM local time (12-12:30PM ET) and landing at Moffett Air Field in Mountain View, California, at 9AM Saturday evening.

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First intercontinental solar-powered flight

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The European built solar plane Solar Impulse has completed the world’s first intercontinental flight powered by the sun with a landing in Rabat, Morocco. Solar Impulse took off from Madrid and landed at Rabat’s International airport after a 19-hour flight.