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AALTO’s Zephyr Solar Drone Achieves Continuous Flight Record of 67 Days

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AALTO's Zephyr Solar Drone Achieves Continuous Flight Record of 67 Days

On May 2, AALTO announced that its Zephyr High Altitude Platform System (HAPS) has set a new stratospheric flight record, with one of its aircraft flying continuously for 67 days. The flight was jointly managed by the stratospheric operations center located in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK, and a ground control station in the United States, operating … Read more

Japan Completes ‘Flying Base Station’ and Ground Communication Experiment

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Zephyr is a fixed-wing high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle that can serve as a high-altitude platform station. Image source: AALTO HAPS official website According to a report from the Science and Technology Daily in Tokyo on March 16 (Reporter Li Yang), Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and its joint venture Space Compass recently announced … Read more