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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 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.
Pages in category "High-altitude platform stations" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Airbus Zephyr; B. BAE Systems PHASA-35; Boeing ...
Qinetiq Mercator 1 is a joint British/Belgian remote sensing system utilising a modified version of the Qinetiq Zephyr High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a platform. The reconnaissance pod was designed by the Belgian research institute VITO. It was called Medusa. The airplane is designed to provide remote ...
HAPSMobile is a subsidiary of SoftBank planning to operate High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) networks, with AeroVironment as a minority owner. HAPSMobile develops the Hawk30 solar-powered unmanned aircraft for stratospheric telecommunications, and has a strategic relationship with Loon LLC , a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet Inc.
In November 2017, a partnership with Airbus was announced to further development of the Aquila and the "high altitude platform station broadband connectivity system" (HAPS) project. [8] The same month, it was announced that Aquila would be displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum's spring "The Future Starts here" exhibition in 2018.
AUG 02 (Augusta 02) - 134.950/307.000 Sector 02 is a high altitude sector consisting mainly of overseas traffic proceeding north–south or east–west. The sector also serves a number of aircraft, climbing/descending high altitude, which are departing and arriving Maine and New Hampshire airports.
QinetiQ Zephyr, high-altitude long-endurance (in development) RAE LARYNX (1927–1929) - guided anti-ship weapon; R.F.C. 1917 Aerial Target The first drone aircraft; Short Skyspy - ducted fan for urban reconnaissance [285] Singular Aircraft SA03 (UK/Spain) Thales Watchkeeper WK450, reconnaissance (2005) UB.109T (1950s) - project for long range ...