It's hard to believe that it's been just a little over a year since we formed the HAPS Alliance. Our focus has been on awareness, education, and outreach, but this year we’ll have an increased focus on interoperability and standards, as well as understanding some of the fundamental economic challenges that we need to address for HAPS to scale.

Within the HAPS Alliance, Airbus is proud to be part of a community looking into the future of unmanned flight and unlocking the potential of the stratosphere. In several aspects, HAPS technologies and business solutions will serve Sustainable development goals and targets.

Radisys is a global leader in open telecom solutions and services. Its disaggregated platforms and integration services leverage open reference architectures and standards combined with open software and hardware, enabling service providers to drive open digital transformation.

Loon just announced that it will be closing down operations over the next several months. The company will remain a HAPS Alliance member through this transition, and Ken Riordan will continue in his role as President of the Alliance.

Stratosyst is a Czech company based in Prague that was founded with one single purpose – to make long-term sustainable stratospheric flight a reality. The original idea was to develop HAPS as an astronomic observatory, and the whole concept was presented this way at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide in 2017 and in Washington in 2019.

Filtronic designs and manufactures products that transmit, receive, condition and manage radio waves, particularly at microwave and mmWave frequencies. Mission-critical communication networks depend on our systems and components.