Tomás Saraceno Aerocene at MoMa

Film work documenting the world’s first fully-powered aerosolar vehicle in its maiden tether flight atop the sandy dunes of White Sands, in New Mexico. On November 8, 2015, Tomás Saraceno’s fully and solely solar-powered certified lighter than air vehicle “D-O AEC Aerocene” lifted up seven passengers without ANY use of propane for approx. 2 hours and 15 minutes, establishing therefore new worldwide records, and discerning itself from all other certified solar crafts that exist. Normally a flight with a pilot and a passenger would use, for the same journey, 324 liters fuel; a solar balloon would use 27 liters; D-O AEC Aerocene used 0 during the entire time of the flight, inflation included. Although there have been other solar vessels in the past, this is the first certified to carry passengers which succeeded to float safely without burning any kind of propane.