26 October 2020

SPL IN THE PRESS – ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY ARTICLE

It’s been an exciting week for SPL in the press.

Check out this interesting article from the Royal Aeronautical Society, with a little more about our technological advancement…

“On 19 October a secretive Cambridge-based UK start-up, Stratospheric Platforms, went public and revealed that it had conducted a flight trial with its partner and shareholder, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom to demonstrate connectivity for ‘4G/5G mast in the sky’. The test was the world’s first successful trial of high-speed LTE/4G data and voice connectivity using a remotely-piloted aerial system (RPAS) and integrated into a terrestrial phone and data network. The trial, using a high-altitude Grob 520 aircraft acting as a surrogate RPAS at 45,000ft over Bavaria, was a proof of concept for an ambitious and highly innovative project to deliver high-speed broadband and data from the sky.”

You can read the full article on the RAeS website here

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