4 | Alphabet’s Loon partners with Softbank’s HAPSMobile for stratospheric connectivity | ----------- | |
FierceWireless: Wireless | 2019-04-26 00:00 | ????0? | |
The partnership enables HAPSMobile to use Loon’s balloons now, while it finishes development of its own Hawk 30 vehicles. Under the agreement, Loon will be able to use the Hawk vehicles once they are completed. The two companies will also jointly developed communications payloads that can be used on both flight vehicles and will support connectivity using a variety of frequency bands. The companies will also develop common ground stations, which would be deployed globally, to support both Loon and HAPSMobile connectivity. HAPSMobile’s vehicles are not too dissimilar from Facebook’s Aquila project, a fleet of solar-powered aircraft Facebook was developing to deliver connectivity to people in remote areas. Facebook launched the project in 2014, but shuttered it in 2018 as more space companies began entering the sector. -- ???????? | |||
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