Tag: HAPS

Sceye HAPS Completes First Transpacific Flight from U.S. to Japan

Aerotime reports U.S. firm Sceye, which develops High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) for communications and surveillance, announced it has completed its “first ever transpacific deployment” of the ST1, an airship-like, long-endurance vehicle. The HAPS traveled more than 15,000 km through the stratosphere from New Mexico to Japan over 13 days before conducting operational trials over Japan.
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Sceye HAPS Launch
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BAE’s PHASA-35 HAPS Secures Multiyear AFRL Surveillance Contract

Aviation Week reports, “The BAE Systems PHASA-35, an uncrewed, high-altitude, pseudo-satellite (HAPS), will operate monthslong airborne surveillance missions in coordination with U.S. Southern Command under a new contract. Acting on behalf of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), NASA quietly awarded a contract five months ago worth up to $10 million for the PHASA-35 to resume airborne missions operating from July 23, 2025, to April 17, 2030.”
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