SoftBank Corp.'s ground team tracked Sceye's stratospheric platform in real time and continuously received reflected laser signals, advancing future free-space optical (FSO) communications between ground, stratosphere, and space ... .
aerospace and material science company building High Altitude PlatformSystems (HAPS) for stratospheric infrastructure, today announced the world-first stratospheric laser tracking demonstration ...Tracking Sceye’s ST1 HAPS.
The demonstration used a corner cube reflector (CCR) mounted on an LTA-type HAPS operated by U.S ... Why bounce a laser off a HAPS? ... HAPS platforms operate around 20 kilometers above Earth, and their position and orientation constantly change.
Sceye's ST1HAPS launched on August 9, 2026 from New Mexico... "This flight marks a defining moment for Sceye and for the commercial potential of HAPS," said Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen, Founder and CEO of Sceye.