Mira Aerospace, a global leader in high-altitude semi-satellites (HAPS), today announced the successful completion of a series of HAPS flights in the UAE.
Mira Aerospace is a joint venture between Bayanat, a public joint stock company listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, and UAVOS, a US-based advanced unmanned systems developer and manufacturer.
An aircraft was launched from Abu Al Abyad Island in the UAE and continued to fly in the stratosphere for several days, carrying advanced Earth observation technologies.
During this period, it tested a number of scenarios to ensure the technology’s readiness and accuracy in Earth observation and environmental monitoring, in addition to collecting important data about the flight.
“As Bayanat completes its merger with Yahsat to form Space42, the progress of Mira Aerospace is key to our vision,” said Hassan Al Hosani, Managing Director of Bayanat and Chairman of Mira Aerospace. “These successful flights of our high-altitude quasi-satellites represent an important step in our journey, enabling us to collect more comprehensive data, analyse it and make it available through our gIQ AI platform.”
For his part, Khalid Al Marzouqi, CEO of Mira Aerospace, stressed that these technologies adopted by the UAE will place it among the countries that are advancing in the field of space in terms of innovation and diversity of data sources, and harnessing unmanned systems to serve vital sectors such as the environment, agriculture, energy and other government and private sectors.
High-altitude quasi-satellite technology, previously identified by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the top ten new technologies that will impact the world, has made progress on three continents. The success of the UAE flights demonstrates the country’s growing expertise in providing high-tech space solutions and paves the way for major future achievements in this technology.
The company’s high-altitude quasi-satellite technology provides long-duration, carbon-free flights using highly efficient solar panels for power. It will be a sustainable and cost-effective solution for continuous Earth observation, by collecting high-resolution data, and providing communications services to uninhabited areas as an independent network or in cooperation with 4G and 5G service providers to connect to the Internet, with high flexibility in controlling the flight path and directing it to the right place.
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