Missions
Missions
Transatlantic crossing 2018
The first atlantic crossing by an unmanned surface vehicle.
The SB Met has made it across and we are very proud of her. She is the first ever unmanned surface vehicle to complete an Atlantic crossing.
Faroes Mission
This mission was conducted by the Nansen Center in September 2013. The Sailbuoy was to keep a specified distance from the ice edge (around 40 km). As the ice edge moved the Sailbuoys waypoint was updated to follow the ice. The Sailbuoy was equipped with different sensors.
North sea 2016 mission
This mission was conducted by Offshore Sensing summer 2016. The mission objective of the SailBuoy was to investigate the Sailbuoys performance as a wave buoy in summer conditions.
The Deep-C Mission
The Deep-C’s SailBuoy was launched on March 15, 2013 approximately 11 nautical miles (nm) south of Cape San Blas and was retrieved on the 15th of June, 2013.
