SoftBank Tests Next-Generation HAPS UAS Design

Graham Warwick August 10, 2023

Developed with AeroVironment, SoftBank’s next-generation HAPS is a solar-powered, flying-wing UAS.

Credit: SoftBank
SoftBank’s plans to develop high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to provide mobile communications services from the stratosphere have taken a step forward with flight testing of a subscale model of a next-generation, solar-powered uncrewed aircraft system (UAS). The low-altitude flight test was...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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