SoftBank Tests Next-Generation HAPS UAS Design

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...
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