Experience the Stratosphere 

The first stratospheric UAS of its kind, Zephyr provides a persistent and adaptable solution, unlike other unmanned aircraft. Its persistence enables a capability of flying continuously for months at a time, at around 70,000ft, above weather and conventional air traffic.

Longevity

It is a HAPS: a High Altitude Platform Station, and is the only HAPS to have demonstrated day/night longevity in the stratosphere.

Ultra-Light

Zephyr is the world’s leading solar-electric stratospheric Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), with a wingspan of 25m and a weight of less than 75kg.

Greenfield Coverage

Today’s solutions cannot cover every area - geography, population density and economics often rule them out. The unique technological advantages, the economics, and the scalability of our solution can address this challenge. Zephyr helps Mobile Network Operators meet their universal service obligations and gain an edge with improved geographical and population coverage.

White Spots

Even in well-connected nations some areas still suffer from connectivity gaps due to natural terrain or other obstacles. Zephyr can fill these gaps, providing uninterrupted coverage and user-experience.

Disaster Recovery

When disaster strikes, terrestrial networks often become inoperable. The flexibility of our solutions provides temporary connectivity until networks are restored – saving lives and providing much needed coverage for first responders.

©Airbus DS 2018 – view from Airbus Zephyr

Benefit from unique stratospheric persistency: One of the many features offered by Zephyr is its ability to station-keep, enabling 24/7 fixed-area coverage to complement satellite based services.

Zephyr brings even more focus; providing persistent coverage over a specific area to ensure continuous support for your mission.

See every change. React immediately

©Airbus DS 2018 – view from Airbus Zephyr

Zephyr can support a wide range of payload capabilities, including but not limited to: Electro Optical, Infrared, Hyper Spectral, Passive Radio Frequency (RF) Radar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Early Warning, Lidar and Automatic Identification System (AIS). 

©Airbus DS 2018 – view from Airbus Zephyr

Wildfire Management

Forest wildfires have devastating consequences across an array of areas. Whether it’s the multi-billion dollar cost to local, national and global economies, or the immeasurable threat to life. Stratospheric connectivity and earth observation could be used as a key component in the smart management of large wildfires.

Border Security

Border emergencies can often be unpredictable, giving governmental resources little time to respond. Dispatching stratospheric capabilities to the border could either be a short-term, or a dedicated long-term solution to border monitoring – even at night.

MANET Military Mobile Ad-hoc Network

Deploy a secure, and mission-critical Military Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) from the stratosphere. MANET payloads integrated onto Zephyr can advance redundancy, robustness, security, range, and network reliability. Zephyr can significantly improve communications in unforgiving terrain, becoming a game-changing ally in governmental operations from stratosphere.

Military Relay and Range Extension

Zephyr enables secure military communications relay and range extension for VHF/UHF. Flying above 60,000ft altitude, Zephyr can provide a local footprint adjusted to the specific mission area, providing secure communications in-theatre.

Persistent monitoring of critical assets

Integrated with the OPAZ payload, Zephyr offers high-resolution images and video at 18cm for EO and 70cm for IR. This best-in-class camera capability enables detailed monitoring and change detection around critical assets, whether a humanitarian convoy on the move, or a fixed peace-keeping outpost – the combination of flexibility, persistence and technical excellence enables persistent overwatch for both scenarios.

Leisure Marine

Uniquely positioned right above in the stratosphere, our connectivity solutions offer symmetrical coverage, with high bandwidth and very low latency, less than 10 milliseconds. All direct to the end user’s device.

Maritime Cruise

Staying connected at sea is important, especially for thousands of guests on a maritime cruise. Watching high-quality streaming content, sharing video with family on the shore requires the best internet for the best-in-class experience. Uniquely positioned to deliver latency lower than a LEO or GEO satellite – stratospheric connectivity can provide streaming and video conferencing capabilities to all your guests. Direct to their device.

Fishing

Smart fishing requires smart solutions that are increasingly becoming internet and cloud-based. Internet connectivity at sea is becoming increasingly important for commercial fishing applications. Our low latency solutions will enable fishing vessels to receive fishing data, and more, at an instant.

Commercial Aviation

Zephyr stratospheric connectivity will be capable of supporting a variety of use cases. Whether enhancing and enabling fast on-board Wi-Fi, or extending the reach of a Flight Information Region’s infrastructure for better-quality communications by acting as a relay. The possibilities begin in the stratosphere.

Connected Vehicles

Smart, integrated networks for connected cars – and in the future, autonomous cars – are the next step in the automotive industry. Addressing white spots and ensuring ubiquitous flow of data is a key element to consider. Service quality must be consistent. Zephyr’s stratospheric solutions can be the answer.