The HAPSMobile Sunglider unmanned air vehicle (UAV) reached an altitude of more than 60,000ft during a 20h demonstration flight on 21 and 22 September. The solar-powered high-altitude pseudo-satellite ...
An unmanned aircraft designed for high-altitude communications has edged closer to the real-world applications, with the HAPSMobile Sunglider successfully completing another round of testing in New ...
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO:9434) and minority-owned by AeroVironment, Inc. (“AeroVironment ...
SoftBank has conducted a successful sub-scale model flight of its new High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) platform. The company this week said that it conducted the low-altitude flight test using a ...
Solar power for vehicles of different shapes and sizes is something humanity has been toying with for years now, but we’re yet to see something truly reliable being produced by all these experiments.
AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), today announced the Sunglider™ solar-powered high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) achieved key test milestones, ...
Sunglider reaches stratospheric altitude in 20-hour test flight Successfully demonstrates broadband mobile communication on consumer smartphones, linking teams in Tokyo, New Mexico and Silicon Valley ...