{"id":53098,"date":"2023-07-14T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bae-systems-haps-vehicle-completes-stratospheric-flight\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:09:47","slug":"bae-systems-haps-vehicle-completes-stratospheric-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bae-systems-haps-vehicle-completes-stratospheric-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"BAE Systems\u2019 HAPS Vehicle Completes Stratospheric Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>BAE Systems<\/b> completed a stratospheric flight last month of its HAPS vehicle PHASA-35. In a recent 24-hour test, PHASA-35 flew to more than 66,000 feet to reach the stratosphere, and then landed successfully.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PHASA-35 is a High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS), developed by BAE Systems\u2019 subsidiary Prismatic Ltd. It has a 35-meter wingspan and carries a 15 kg payload and uses electric cells and photo-voltaic arrays to provide energy during the day. The test assessed the experimental solar-electric drone in the stratosphere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems plans to conduct more tests and market the vehicle to defense and commercial markets internationally. PHASA-35 has the potential to be used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or security, and also to deliver 4G and 5G communications for disaster relief and border protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fantastic achievement for everyone involved and shows the commitment of BAE Systems to invest in new technologies and markets,\u201d said Dave Corfield, CEO of Prismatic Ltd. \u201cPHASA-35\u2019s first stratospheric flight demonstrates that this vehicle is on track to become the go-to system for long endurance, high altitude and communications applications in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAE Systems completed a stratospheric flight last month of its HAPS vehicle PHASA-35. In a recent 24-hour test, PHASA-35 flew to more than 66,000 feet to reach the stratosphere, and then landed successfully.&nbsp; PHASA-35 is a High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS), developed by BAE Systems\u2019 subsidiary Prismatic Ltd. It has a 35-meter wingspan and carries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}