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BT tests powerful 5G antenna for future HAPS drone deployment

Bruce Crumley - Feb. 1st 2023 4:36 am PT @BDroneDJ

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UK telecoms company BT is testing a powerful new antenna technology that, once mounted on a high-altitude platform station (HAPS) drone, is expected to provide 4G and 5G services of up to 150 Mbps over areas as large as 15,000 square kilometers.

Airbus’ Zephyr HAPS unit seeks partners for stratospheric drone’s commercialization

Bruce Crumley - Jan. 24th 2023 4:14 am PT @BDroneDJ

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Airbus has remarkable success in developing its record-shattering Zephyr high-altitude platform system (HAPS), but now the European aviation giant is now looking to bring in outside investors to help take the solar-powered drone to market.

Airbus Zephyr’s US Army marathon flight ends hours shy of endurance record

Bruce Crumley - Aug. 22nd 2022 11:48 am PT @BDroneDJ

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So close, but in the end, no superlative cigar. After 64 straight days of solar-powered flight, the US Army’s Airbus-built Zephyr UAV reportedly plunged from the skies over Arizona, just hours shy of breaking the all-time record for continuous navigation by an aircraft.

US Army Zephyr UAV test flight continues shattering endurance records

Bruce Crumley - Aug. 8th 2022 2:18 am PT @BDroneDJ

UAV Airbus stratosphereic flight US Army

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There’s no longer any question about whether the US Army’s experimental flight of the solar-powered Zephyr UAV will break the aerial endurance record, only by how much the craft will shatter that mark with each additional day it remains aloft.

New BAE ‘pseudo satellite’ can remain aloft at 70,000 feet for a year

Bruce Crumley - Jun. 21st 2021 6:25 am PT @BDroneDJ

Drone Drone Defense stratosphereic flight HALE

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British aeronautic and defense giant BAE Systems has developed a solar-powered, stratosphere-flying drone that can act as a backup option to disabled communications satellites.