Europeen Solar Prize 2013 Knight of Saint-Charles 2022 Raphaël Domjan (born 19 January 1972) is a Swiss explorer and lecturer.
He initiated and completed the first round-the-world trip using solar energy between September 2010 and May 2012 aboard the MS catamaran PlanetSolar.
[2] In 2001, he co-founded the company Horus Networks Sàrl, the world's first solar web server.
[4] The PlanetSolar catamaran was built in Germany between 2008 and 2010, financed by the German entrepreneur Immo Stroeher.
He also participated in the crossing of the United States north/south with Louis Palmer aboard the SolarTaxi, a solar and electric car.
[3] In 2014, he brought together an international team and launched the SolarStratos mission, the objective of which was to reach the stratosphere with a piloted solar plane.
[6][1] In 2015, along with the sailor Anne Quemere, he attempted to make the first crossing of the Northwest Passage in a solar powered kayak.
[8] On 18 June 2022 Raphaël Domjan took off with HB-SXA solar plane from Sion airport in Switzerland with the adventurer Géraldine Fasnacht on board.
She jumped from SolarStratos at more than 9,000 feet above the Swiss Alps and achieved the first wingsuit flight from an electric and solar plane.
[15] According to SolarStratos, this project would aim to demonstrate that renewable energy makes it possible to go beyond what is possible with conventional propulsion methods.