Army Futures Command has taken an interest in the Zephyr drone. (Airbus) WASHINGTON — Testing of Airbus’ Zephyr drone unexpectedly concluded after completing a record 64 days aloft following an ...

Airbus Zephyr did not achieve its goals of breaking a world record for the longest flight made by an aircraft, and the solar-powered drone crashed in Arizona after 64 days of sustained flight. The ...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Monday it was seeking outside investment for its high-altitude surveillance and communications drone programme Zephyr, in a bid to scale the business and accelerate ...

Airbus' Zephyr breaks its own record for longest unmanned flight (Courtesy of Airbus Defence and Space). WASHINGTON – The solar-powered Zephyr drone beat its own record for time spent aloft as an ...

Defense giant Airbus is looking to begin commercial operations of its Zephyr high-altitude drone and may spin-out the company. Zephyr is a solar-powered high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) that is ...

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Airbus SE is seeking outside investment for its high altitude solar-powered drone program called Zephyr in order to accelerate the commercialization of the technology. The planemaker has hired Morgan ...

Achieved 36 days of stratospheric flight, across two 2021 flights, proving Zephyr’s status as the only HAPS able to perform at length in the stratosphere · Set a new world record for absolute altitude ...

Bigfork, Montana – uAvionix today announced that launch customer Airbus has successfully integrated and flown the uAvionix ping200X ADS-B transponder and truFYX GPS throughout its Zephyr High Altitude ...

The composite Zephyr S unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has completed a successful 2021 test flight campaign in the U.S., Airbus (Munich, Germany) reports. The company’s final solar-powered high altitude ...