AALTO HAPSm an Airbus subsidiary which designs, manufactures and operates the Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS), has appointed Hughes Boulnois as CEO. Hughes succeeds Samer Halawi in the role with immediate effect. After conducting an extensive review of AALTO’s market, structures and strategy, Airbus Defence and Space has decided to update the company’s focus […]

PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel), a digital infrastructure telecommunications company, and AALTO HAPS, which designs, manufactures and operates the stratospheric, solar-powered Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore how to provide commercial HAPS solutions in Indonesia. Combined with Mitratel’s digital infrastructure portfolio that includes more than 38,000 towers […]

A consortium of Japanese businesses led by NTT Docomo and Space Compass, together with Mizuho Bank and the Development Bank of Japan, has committed to invest $100 million (€92.2m) in Airbus subsidiary AALTO, which manufactures and operates the stratospheric, solar-powered Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS). The investment will be made through the Japanese Consortium’s […]

UK-based tech disruptor Avealto is taking legal action against a subsidiary of Airbus. The company, which is committed to providing a novel, environmentally friendly solution to deliver low cost, high-speed Internet to the world’s poorest communities, has issued a cease and desist letter against Airbus HAPS Connectivity Solutions Ltd – recently renamed Aalto HAPS Ltd […]