A cell tower in the stratosphere.
From 12–20 km, Hoverblox delivers direct-to-device connectivity, Earth observation and persistent monitoring, closing the gap between ground towers and orbiting satellites.
High Altitude Platform Stations: infrastructure that flies.
HAPS are airborne platforms that operate in the stratosphere, typically 18–22 km above the Earth, carrying telecommunications payloads that cover hundreds of kilometres at once.
With slight modifications, a HAPS functions like a cell tower in the sky delivering directly to devices the high bandwidth, throughput and low latency that 5G, and potentially 6G non-terrestrial networks, demand. Their proximity to Earth also makes them ideal for defence, remote sensing and Earth observation.
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Lift to the places convoys can’t reach.
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Payload class
— an order of magnitude above ultra-light HAPS, and competitive with the heaviest platforms.
Modularity
— no other HAPS allows field-swappable structure, power and payload.
Serviceability
— every other HAPS is effectively a single-airframe asset; Hoverblox is modular and repairable.
Compute at altitude
— on-board edge AI inference, multi-sensor fusion and high-power ISR stacks.
Launch & recovery
— no runway, no balloon protection infrastructure, no hangar.
Cost
— lower CapEx and dramatically lower OpEx through reusability and modular repair.
A global fleet of 11,000 Hoverblox could extend high-speed connectivity to the 5 billion people still offline.
The future of connectivity isn’t on towers or in orbit. It’s in the stratosphere.
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Continuous intelligence collection where it matters most.
Lower altitude. Lower power. Lower latency. Lower cost.
Satellites are expensive to build and launch, slow to deploy, and impossible to service. A satellite stays up only by continuously free-falling around Earth, and changing its orbit burns a finite propellant supply. Operating below orbit gives Hoverblox a better telecommunications link budget than LEO or GEO satellites, lower power consumption, and a smaller round-trip delay. Hoverblox comes back to earth, gets maintained and/or upgraded, and flies the next mission.
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Continuous, high-resolution eyes on a changing planet.
Observing Earth in infrared is essential for studying weather, climate, wildfires and surfaces obscured by smoke or cloud. Satellites pass too infrequently; drones cannot cover the ground required. Hoverblox fills the gap monitoring forest fires, agriculture and climate events with continuous, high-resolution, stratospheric imaging tailored to the task.