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A high altitude platform can provide observation or communication services. A high-altitude platform station (HAPS, which can also mean high-altitude pseudo-satellite or high-altitude platform systems), also known as atmospheric satellite, is a long endurance, high altitude aircraft able to offer observation or communication services similarly to artificial satellites.
The Hawk30 flying-wing is a development of the NASA Pathfinder and NASA Helios high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft built by AeroVironment for NASA. [2] Resembling the 1999 Helios, the tailless aircraft is a 256 ft (78 m) span flying wing with 10 electric-driven propellers. Orbiting at 65,000 ft (20,000 m), it is solar-powered by day ...
Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes – A comprehensive list of artificial satellites and space probes. Timeline of space travel by nationality; Timeline of spaceflight – Chronological list of events in spaceflight broken down as a separate article for each year
List of first satellites by country; List of proposed Solar System probes; Timeline of Solar System exploration; Timeline of the Space Race; List of cumulative spacewalk records; List of spacewalkers; List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999; List of spacewalks 2000–2014; List of spacewalks since 2015; Timeline of Spirit; List of space ...
The Facebook Aquila is an experimental solar-powered drone developed by Facebook for use as an atmospheric satellite, intended to act as relay stations for providing internet access to remote areas. The Aquila first flew on 28 June 2016 with a second aircraft successfully flying in 2017.
Expanded data set of previous Explorer missions and collected data from Argus high-altitude nuclear explosions. [1] 11.7 kg (25.8 lb) August 17 US: Pioneer 0: Thor-Able 1: Failure: Failed to orbit. First stage engine failure caused explosion at T+77 seconds. 38 kg (84 lb) August 24 US: Explorer 5: Juno I: Failure
The Zephyr is a series of high-altitude platform station aircraft produced by Airbus. They were designed originally by QinetiQ, a commercial offshoot of the UK Ministry of Defence. In July 2010, the Zephyr 7 flew for 14 days. In March 2013, the project was sold to Airbus Defence and Space. In the summer of 2022, the Zephyr 8/S flew for 64 days.
A series of flights were planned to demonstrate that an extremely light and fragile aircraft structure with a very high aspect ratio (the ratio between the wingspan and the wing chord) can successfully take-off and land from an airport and can be flown to extremely high altitudes (between 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and 80,000 feet (24,000 m ...