{"id":64137,"date":"2018-09-13T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hispasat-thales-to-show-off-new-4g-5g-stratospheric-balloon\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T01:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:00:32","slug":"hispasat-thales-to-show-off-new-4g-5g-stratospheric-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hispasat-thales-to-show-off-new-4g-5g-stratospheric-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispasat, Thales to Show Off New 4G \/ 5G Stratospheric Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Spanish satellite operator <strong>Hispasat<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> are jointly preparing a stratospheric balloon demonstration for 4G\/5G telecom applications. Scheduled for October 2018 in southern Spain, the demonstration will test 4G\/5G applications by allowing direct communications between smartphones and a High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) \u2013 a stratospheric balloon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Thales Alenia Space is serving as Hispasat\u2019s prime contractor for this demonstration and offering its payload expertise of 4G\/5G telecommunication missions. The company will team up with Spanish technology firm&nbsp;<strong>Zero 2 Infinity<\/strong>, which will provide the stratospheric balloon, while Thales develops the future full-scale stratospheric airship, Stratobus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Stratobus] is a stratospheric airship that combines the best of drones and satellites to provide a low-cost system that offers autonomous operation and permanent regional coverage, while offering an excellent fit with satellite systems,\u201d said Jean Loic Galle, CEO of Thales Alenia Space. \u201cStratobus is designed for a wide range of civil or military applications, including telecommunications, navigation and surveillance. Its position in the stratosphere at an attitude of 20 kilometers is optimal for 4G and 5G telecommunications, with signals sent directly to the end-user\u2019s smartphone in just milliseconds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish satellite operator Hispasat and Thales Alenia Space are jointly preparing a stratospheric balloon demonstration for 4G\/5G telecom applications. Scheduled for October 2018 in southern Spain, the demonstration will test 4G\/5G applications by allowing direct communications between smartphones and a High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) \u2013 a stratospheric balloon. Thales Alenia Space is serving as Hispasat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64138,"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-64137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64137"}],"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=64137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}