A special thanks to John Blackstone and his crew for visiting our New Mexico hangar and capturing the extraordinary impact that HAPS can have on broadband connection, early wildfire detection, methane emissions monitoring, and more for billions of people.
A 270-foot-long silver dirigible-like structure may soon ‘park’ in the stratosphere above New Mexico oil fields to monitor methane, part of a growing effort in the Mountain West to track the potent heat-trapping gas that leaks from oil and gas infrastructure. The helium structure – also known as a high-altitude platform station, or HAPS – …
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The state aims to put an eye in the sky to monitor oil field emissions. As New Mexico boosts oversight of methane and other pollutants wafting from the state’s oil and gas wells, officials are looking for the most efficient ways to detect and measure emissions to keep them within bounds. Sceye Inc., based in …
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Sceye’s unmanned stratospheric platform launched at 8:55 a.m. MDT from its New Mexico facility and landed safely at 1:05 p.m. MDT. Today’s launch was part of Sceye’s test plan to demonstrate the feasibility of extending high-speed internet services to unserved and underserved populations bridging the digital divide. Sceye is performing these demonstrations for its clients, …
Sceye, a developer of high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), announced today that it successfully launched its stratospheric platforms and flew at an altitude of 64,600 ft.
The announcement comes on the heels of Sceye’s long-range record for maintaining data connection in OpenRAN at a distance of 140km. With financial support from the State of New Mexico, the company also joins a consortium of New Mexico-based telecommunications companies and tribal entities to pilot delivery of universal broadband access to the Navajo Nation.
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