Engineers from the UK have made significant progress with a series of trials with the PHASA-35, a UAS developed by BAE Systems.

Latest flight trials take the British-built PHASA-35 High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) a step closer to operations in the stratosphere. A British-led team of engineers has taken a ...

BAE Systems has announced a number of flight tests successes for its Persistent High-Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA)-35 ...

The British team of engineers leading the PHASA-35 unmanned aircraft project, developed by BAE Systems, has achieved a ...

Recent trials conducted at Spaceport America in New Mexico, USA, demonstrated that the solar-powered aircraft can remain ...

UK engineers have carried out a new set of successful test flights of  the PHASA-35 uncrewed, solar-powered aircraft.

BAE Systems has detailed its latest series of test flights using the Prismatic-developed PHASA-35, as it promotes the ...

(IN BRIEF) BAE Systems’ PHASA-35, a solar-powered High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS), has successfully completed a series of test flights at Spaceport America, New Mexico, reaching altitudes of ...

BAE Systems’ PHASA-35, a solar-powered High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS), has successfully completed a series of test flights at Spaceport ...

Phasa-35 moves so slowly it can appear to be going backwards. This weird, elongated British aircraft is powered by small electric engines attached to elongated wings encasing solar panels.

The unmanned Phasa-35 has the wingspan of an airliner and is intended for surveillance and communications use. The plane, developed and designed by Alton-based Prismatic in Hampshire, climbed ...

Power-to-weight ratio is essential, as PHASA 35 will aim to stay in the stratosphere for six months at a time, fueled only by the Sun. Credit: ITV News It can carry a similar payload to low orbit ...