European aerospace giant Airbus has completed the first test flights in Kenya of its high altitude communication drones, ...

project is to build up comprehensive system expertise for high-altitude aircraft at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). This expertise should make it possible ...

Under the leadership of the Institute of Flight Systems, DLR is pursuing a holistic approach and is developing not only a platform, but also the necessary ground station, payloads that can be ...

Zephyr’s first flight of 2025 demonstrates unrivalled capability and commercial potential of AALTO’s HAPS technology Successful testing of UK-built connectivity payload, a key use case of the ...

One of the key programs under the endeavor is the envisioned installation of a high-altitude platform station (HAPS). An unmanned aircraft mounted with a repeater will be sent into the ...

Sceye’s high altitude platform system is designed to float ... “Because we’re station keeping, we can quantify the rate of ...

(Photo by Spc. Javion Siders/U.S. Army) The Army is scouring industry for unmanned aircraft systems to launch from medium- or high-altitude platforms that would perform tasks like intelligence ...