AALTO is an Airbus subsidiary manufacturing solar-electric Zephyr HAPS aircraft and offering connectivity and Earth observation services from the stratosphere.
🇯🇵 AALTO announces that a consortium of leading Japanese businesses, led by NTT DOCOMO and Space Compass, has committed to invest USD$100m in the Company.
Read the full press release ➡️
#AALTO
#TheFutureIsStratospheric
↔️ With the wingspan of 25 meters, but weighing less than 75 kilograms, Zephyr is the world’s most advanced fixed-wing High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) aircraft.
Read the full press release on the 🇯🇵 Japanese investment into AALTO ➡️
📰 AALTO HAPS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter a strategic partnership with Paradise Mobile, the Bermuda-based Mobile Network Operator.
#Stratospheric
#Connectivity
#Zephyr
#HAPS
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THE STRATOSPHERIC AGE HAS BEGUN
Airborne, flying at 70,000ft, day & night, for months at a time, powered only by the sun. Quietly, surely, gracefully, the AALTO Zephyr brings a new era of enhanced, sustainable flight and unlimited possibilities for real time connectivity.
#HAPS
☀ Sunlight empowers humanity to do the amazing. It also empowers our 100% solar-electric, world-record-breaking Zephyr HAPS aircraft to be able to fly in the stratosphere for days, weeks, months at a time—enabling game-changing connectivity and Earth observation capabilities.
With the announced Japanese investment, AALTO will be well-positioned to support a range of applications, such as:
👉 Expand the coverage of Mobile Network Operators
👉 Reduce network white spots
👉 Support Japan’s response to natural disasters
Learn more from our CEO, Samer:
🌐✈ Happy World Pilots' Day!
Did you know that Zephyr pilots have accumulated more than 4,000 hours of flight time across various Zephyr platforms?
Today in particular, we celebrate our pilots' stratospheric feats!
#AALTO
#Zephyr
#TheFutureIsStratospheric
#WorldPilotsDay
23rd March is World Meteorological Day🌍
Zephyr is an ideal platform for weather observation from the stratosphere – slowly flying above weather patterns to gain valuable insight that can help us understand weather patterns and climate change.
#WorldMetDay
📰 AALTO HAPS has signed a contract to partner in a proof of concept (PoC) demonstration flight of its world-record-breaking Zephyr HAPS with Space Compass of Japan – a joint venture between NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT.
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Stratospheric news
#MWC23
. AALTO HAPS signs Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Saudi's stc Group to partner commercial digital services coverage to unconnected rural areas. HAPS solutions can augment coverage during, for eg, natural disasters.
AALTO welcomed Juscelino Filho, Minister of State for Communications in the Brazilian Government, to Farnborough. The engagement was the latest stage of conversations regarding the development of an
#AALTOPORT
in
#Brazil
in 2024.
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In our new "'Meet
#TeamAALTO
" series, we interview colleagues to find out more about why they joined AALTO, their work, and what a stratospheric future means to them.
Read the first interview, featuring David Hansell ⤵️
BBC Future featured AALTO's Zephyr in its recent article titled "Stratoplanes: The aircraft that will fly at the edge of space".
You can read the article below ⤵
#AALTOHAPS
#Zephyr
#BBC
#Future
Zephyr returns to flight season 🗓️✈
On 31 May 2024, AALTO completed a successful launch, test and landing from the Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, of its Instrumented Zephyr Test Vehicle, IZTV – a dedicated Zephyr test aircraft – equipped with newly developed advance flight
#MWC23
continues: Wondering where we are? Just look for Zephyr - spending some time a few metres above our stand rather than 21,000 metres up in the stratosphere.
Hall 4 Stand 4B25.
AALTO has lift-off: Our Chief Executive, Samer Halawi was interviewed by FlightGlobal to coincide with the official launch of
#AALTO
.
Read what Samer has to say about the future of High Altitude Platform Station technology:
A unique mix of characteristics enables our Zephyr HAPS aircraft to enable a new, stratospheric layer of direct-to-device connectivity and high resolution Earth observation.
Watch "Meet Zephyr" and find out more ➡️
#AALTO
#Zephyr
#HAPS
#GSMA
#MWC24
"How do you see things now? In the future, we'll see things differently."
With
#WSBW
underway in
#Paris
, AALTO joins the conversation, offering a new way to look at the future of multi-orbit ecosystems.
During
#MWCBarcelona
our CEO, Samer, gave an exclusive interview to Telecom Review, sharing his insight on AALTO's mission and ambitions.
📰Read the article here here⤵️
🎙️Watch the interview⤵️
Today, we welcomed the Member of Parliament for Aldershot,
@LeoDochertyUK
, to the AALTO office. Mr Docherty toured our facilities and met with our senior leaders, to discuss our world-leading Zephyr HAPS and our ongoing commitment to Farnborough.
Meet AALTO at the
#GSMA
#MWC23
Kigali event, starting 17th October!
On Thursday 19th October, Jeff Smith, AALTO's Head of Connectivity - Europe and APAC, will join the "Powering New Plains & Terrains" conference session.
Find out more ➡️
AALTO launched in January 2023 with one of its key objectives being to bridge the connectivity gap, bringing mobile telecoms and internet access to billions of people worldwide.
Check out how:
#MobileConnectivity
#HAPS
AALTO is proud to have received an award from the Royal Aeronautical Society, the world-renowned association for aerospace and aviation, in recognition of the Zephyr 8 flight in 2022.
Read more ➡️
#Zephyr
#TeamAALTO
#TheFutureIsStratospheric
What is it like to work on a cutting-edge, innovative aircraft such as Zephyr from a procurement perspective? What makes a good supplier?
Read the latest Meet
#TeamAALTO
interview, featuring Maziko ➡
#AALTO
#HAPS
#Procurement
AALTO Zephyr is unique - the only fixed-wing HAPS with proven night and day longevity in the stratosphere: 64 days on our most recent customer flight.
#AALTO
#Zephyr
#HAPS
#IllegalFishing
undermines national and regional efforts to conserve and manage fish stocks. AALTO’s
#Zephyr
aircraft can track fishing fleet movements and deploy surveillance technology to identify illegal fishing, helping to safeguard the health and wellbeing of our oceans.
Delegates and visitors to
#MCW23
will have taken some long flights to join us on our stand, including some of the longest commercial flights there are. However, the AALTO HAPS Zephyr can surpass the endurance of any commercial or military aircraft: currently a proven 64 days.
Our Earth Observation
#technology
delivered by Zephyr can help tackle forest-fires, monitor border security and provide real-time updates on transportation networks.
Learn more about
#AALTO
’s stratospheric technology at:
#SaferPlanet
Breaking world-records and building a stratospheric future wouldn't be possible without an expert understanding of
#meteorological
conditions, leading up to, and within the
#stratosphere
itself.
Read the latest Meet
#TeamAALTO
interview ➡️
In the newest Access Partnership (
@AccessAlerts
) LATAM Digital Podcast, Christopher Casarrubias, Vice President Global Regulatory Affairs, talked about AALTO's Zephyr HAPS, and its potential to deliver stratospheric connectivity in the region, and beyond.
How can
#HAPS
revolutionise
#connecticty
?
Christopher Casarrubias discusses Zephyrs, a new technology by
@Airbus
subsidiary
@AALTOHAPS
that aims to provide transformational connectivity from the stratosphere 👇
#WSBW
's day three (13th September) agenda includes a panel session focusing on the role of
#HAPS
in multi-orbit networks. This session will be joined by our CEO Samer Halawi.
View the WSBW programme for more information about the session.
➡️
Thank you to the European Space Agency (
@esa
), for hosting AALTO at the HAPS4ESA Workshop!
ESA’s specialist HAPS workshop that took place this week in the Netherlands, covered recent developments in the HAPS industry, perspectives of HAPS in Europe, and more.
#Zephyr
#HAPS