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High Altitude Pseudo Satellite – Challenges and Benefits to Future Cities

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 23 September 2015
  • 14:23 - 14:23
  • Duration: 16 mins
  • Publication date: 30 Sep 2015
  • Location: NA, Electron Building, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Space systems, services and applications

About the session

The presentation will provide a brief overview of the High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) that Airbus has called “Zephyr” before explaining what the challenges are for adopting this rapidly advancing technology.  The presentation concludes with an insight in to the variety of payloads that can be beneficial to the future cities.

Keywords:
  • airbus zephyr
  • analysis
  • android
  • apps
  • communication
  • data
  • downstream
  • gps
  • internet
  • navigation
  • network
  • pollution
  • satellite
  • science
  • smart cities
  • smart phone
  • software
  • space
  • technologies
  • technology
  • uav
  • upstream
  • wifi

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  • Steve Whitby

    Steve Whitby

    Airbus Defence & Space

    Steve Whitby is heading the business development and sales for High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS); a new generation of UAV, which is self-powered providing high persistence operational missions.He joined Airbus in 2002 and has held a number of senior management positions with P/L responsibility. His career to date spans engineering (both military and industry), project management, business development, account management and more recently directing strategy, large/complex bids and new business in both strategic and growth markets (including Safe Cities). Steve has experience of military, government (including security, emergency service sectors), utilities and petrochemicals markets both in the UK and internationally. He has had specific responsibilities for NATO, EU and international business development for communications and IT solutions. He is a member of the UK Government’s Security Sector Advisory Group.Steve served in the UK Royal Air Force as a Communication Engineering Officer and spent over three years implementing a new communication capability in Germany. Steve is a UK citizen and was born Runcorn in Cheshire. He studied Control Engineering and then went on to gain a degree in Communications and Electronics.
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