SolarStratos is an aeronautical project aimed at flying a piloted solar-powered airplane for the first time to the stratosphere.
It is a two-seater solar plane built by Calin Gologan with which he and his team plan to achieve an altitude record.
The SolarStratos mission should allow Raphaël Domjan to reach more than 25,000 metres (82,000 ft), to altitudes hardly ever achieved with conventional propulsion aircraft.
Its president is the eco-explorer Raphaël Domjan, also the main pilot and intended to perform the record altitude flight.
[12] Sponsors include Jean Verne, great-grandson of Jules Verne, Edgar Mitchell, Moon walker who flew on Apollo 14 (1930-2016), Marie-Vincente Latécoère, founding president of the PG Foundation Latécoère, Jacques Rougerie, oceanographer architect, Jean-François Clervoy, ESA astronaut, André Schneider, Vice-President of Resources and Infrastructures of the EPFL, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish astronaut, Manfred Dutch von Ehrenfried, author of Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere, and Chuck Leavell, keyboardist of Rolling Stones and co-founder of the Mother Nature Network.