In recent years, the space around Earth has become increasingly crowded with satellites. Yet, the higher reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere remain surprisingly untouched. A new generation of companies, however, wants to change that. Using large, uncrewed aircraft, they want to beam down 5G signals and keep an eye on Earth.

Unitt-Jones’s firm, the Cambridge-based Stratospheric Platforms, is one such company and is planning to add another aircraft to the stratosphere – a so-called High-Altitude Pseudo Satellite or HAPS. Read the full article at: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/6/is-the-stratosphere-up-for-a-gold-rush