PR Newswire

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 30, 2026

The Pegasus long endurance drone, developed by Li-S Energy, V-TOL Aerospace and Halocell Energy, completes a successful series of test flights over Queensland

Key Highlights:

• The EATP Pegasus long endurance drone completed several successful test flights in Queensland, culminating in an endurance flight of almost 2 hours covering more than 75 kilometres, on a single Li-S Energy battery pack.
• The endurance flight met expected flight performance and landed safely with battery capacity to spare.
• On a same cell weight basis, the Li-S Energy cells delivered 80% more range and flight time than would have been achieved by an equivalent high-performance professional lithium polymer UAV battery pack #
• The Pegasus drone comprises V-TOL Aerospace's airframe, Li-S Energy's lithium sulfur battery system, and Halocell Energy's perovskite solar array.
• Designed to accommodate two Li-S Energy battery packs, in due course Pegasus is expected to deliver flight durations of 5-8 hours, and 250 kilometres, ideal for long endurance mapping, surveillance, and agricultural, utilities and environmental monitoring missions.
• Demand for drones is growing exponentially across commercial and defence markets, with proposed US and Australian government investment in drone and counter-drone technologies now exceeding A$100 billion [1] .
• Following this success, the collaboration partners intend to assess further commercial development, targeting future platform sales.
• See a one-minute video of the flight here: https://lis.plus/EATP

BRISBANE, Australia , Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Li-S Energy Limited (ASX: LIS) ("Li-S Energy", "LIS" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that Pegasus, the long endurance drone developed under the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnership (EATP) programme, has completed a series of successful test flights in Queensland, culminating in endurance flight of almost 2 hours, powered by a single Li-S Energy lithium sulfur battery pack.