Defense giant Airbus is looking to begin commercial operations of its Zephyr high-altitude drone and may spin-out the company. Zephyr is a solar-powered high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) that is ...

Laikipia County, Kenya: AALTO HAPS Ltd. (“AALTO” or “the Company”), an Airbus subsidiary which designs, manufactures and operates the Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS), has completed its ...

Airbus is one of the leaders in terms of sustainability and green operations not just for commercial aviation but also for mobile connectivity and Earth observation. The Airbus HAPS (High Altitude ...

Airbus Defence & Space is preparing for full commercial operations of its Zephyr high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS), envisioning the establishment of launchpads that could deploy an aircraft ...

Achieved 36 days of stratospheric flight, across two 2021 flights, proving Zephyr’s status as the only HAPS able to perform at length in the stratosphere · Set a new world record for absolute altitude ...

Zephyr launches from the ground and makes its way up to stratosphere over the course of about 10 hours. Its batteries charge during the day, then run down through the night while staying above a floor ...

Airbus Defence and Space (Farnborough, U.K.) reported on Dec. 3 that it has successfully completed a new test flight campaign for its composites-intensive Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) ...

A team of engineers from the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) and the Airbus Zephyr programme has successfully completed the first civil flight of the Airbus Zephyr ...

The UK Ministry of Defence is close to signing a contract with Airbus Defence & Space for the manufacture and testing of two Zephyr 8 high-altitude pseudo satellites (HAPS). A £10.6 million ($15.5 ...

Airbus has signed a Letter of Intent for its Zephyr HAPS Connectivity Business with Space Compass of Japan for a cooperation agreement to service the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and earth ...

The composite Zephyr S unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has completed a successful 2021 test flight campaign in the U.S., Airbus (Munich, Germany) reports. The company’s final solar-powered high altitude ...

The Airbus Zephyr S completes a successful 2021 test flight campaign in the United States. The final Airbus solar-powered High Altitude Platform System (HAPS) flight touched down on 13 th September in ...