HAPS Market Needs Partnerships, Particular Applications to Take Off

Getting the high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) market off the ground might require focusing on applications like remote sensing and surveillance and scientific research as well as industry partnerships, Northern Sky Research's Research Director-France Claude Rousseau said in a blog post Monday. HAPS are both complementary to satellites and also have some advantages, Rousseau said. He pointed to some recent HAPS industry partnership announcements such as the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology memorandum of understanding with Thales and Mines ParisTech to develop applications for Thales Alenia Space Stratobus and World View 's deal with EWR Radar Systems to fly weather radar on high-altitude flights.