The Altaeros SuperTower - Autonomous Aerostat Altaeros 2019-02-12 | Introducing the Altaeros SuperTower -- the world's first commercial aerial cell tower. Altaeros was founded at MIT with the mission of providing affordable, effective and modern infrastructure to unserved and underserved rural communities. In early 2019 Altaeros released the SuperTower, an autonomous, aerial cell tower designed to expand high-speed broadband coverage in rural markets. Now, we are working hard to help bridge the digital divide in the US and the world. Altaeros’ mission is to bring affordable broadband to rural communities. At Altaeros, we believe that everyone should have access to the basic building blocks that allow a fulfilling, prosperous life, whether they live in a megacity or in a rural village. We also believe in the power of innovation to make this a reality. Our SuperTower uses the world’s first autonomous aerostat platform to permanently deploy high-speed mobile broadband in rural markets at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Altaeros’ ultimate goal is to bring millions of people online for the first time.Learn more on our website: http://www.altaeros.com/index.html
A Deep Dive into Aerostat Autopilot with CEO Ben Glass Altaeros 2024-10-08 | Our CEO and Founder, Ben Glass, sat down with us to give us an overview of Altaeros’ Aerostat Autopilot. Having lead the testing and validating of the Aerostat Autopilot software, Ben explains how an autonomous control system is a much needed upgrade to the aerostat industry. Learn more on our website: www.Altaeros.com
The Design Process for the ST-Flex Guardian Class with VP of Hardware Systems, John Umina Altaeros 2024-10-01 | Our VP of Hardware Systems, John Umina, recently sat down with us to describe the design process for the Altaeros ST-Flex Guardian class aerostat. With a wide range of engineering experience, John highlights the creative and innovative thinking required to revolutionize an industry. Learn more about what it took to design our ST-Flex aerostats by visiting our website: altaeros.com
ST-Flex Guardian Class Autonomous Aerostat Tour with Senior Field Service Rep, Scott Cheek Altaeros 2024-09-10 | Scott Cheek, one of our Senior Field Service Representatives, sat down with us to discuss the deployment and operations of our latest autonomous aerostat, ST-Flex Guardian Class. Scott has over three years of experience operating traditional aerostats in the US and overseas and brings a unique perspective about autonomy and its benefits. The ST-Flex Guardian class is easily transportable via land, air, or sea, and can be rapidly deployed in less than a day.Learn more on our website: altaeros.com
ST-Flex Government Payload Options Altaeros 2024-07-30 | Altaeros Guardian Class aerostats are high capacity, long endurance aerial platforms built to perform in the toughest missions and designed to achieve up to 95% uptime with no daily on-site crew needed. Guardian Class aerostats can support a wide range of payload including but not limited to: ISR, Radar, Narrow-Field Electro-optical/infrared, SIGINT, cUAS, MANET radios, Communications relay, and Multi-sector 4G/5G. The guardian class aerostats feature a modular payload bay that allows for rapid equipment swaps when quickly changing payloads is necessary. Additional government features include: GPS hardening, ATTLA military transport certified, enhanced encryption, and more.Learn more on our website: altaeros.com
Altaeros Autonomous Aerostats Rapid and Permanent Deployment Options Altaeros 2024-07-16 | Altaeros builds aerostats suitable for both short-term and long-term deployments. Need something that can be deployed with one day notice? The ST-Flex can be towed by a standard truck, and set up in less than a day with a small team, making it perfect for temporary and emergency deployments. For example, the ST-Flex can rapidly deploy critical communication services to help in the event of a natural disaster or to quickly provide coverage to a hard-to-reach community or industrial site. If you need something more permanent, the ST-300 has a larger capacity to serve more people for longer periods of time. One ST-300 covers the same area as over 10 traditional ground-based cell towers. Both the ST-Flex and the ST-300 fly at a height of 1,000ft, and have a signal range of over 25 miles, so whatever aerostat you choose, your customers will stay connected.
ST-Flex Commercial Payload Options Altaeros 2024-06-12 | Altaeros Aerostats excel in providing a large coverage area with 4G/5G, Fixed Wireless, IoT, or other wireless technologies. One autonomous aerostat can provide up to 25 mi (40km) coverage radius to deliver connectivity when and where you need it most. The rapidly deployable ST-Flex system can cover rural communities, businesses, or industries quickly to get your operation up and running fast. Do you have a specific requirement? Our team of experts will work with you on a custom payload that meets your exact specifications. Visit our website to learn more: altaeros.com/commercial
Port and Border Operations with Altaeros ST-Flex Autonomous Aerostat Altaeros 2024-05-21 | Give your port and border teams continuous situational awareness with a ST-Flex Guardian Class aerostat from Altaeros. Steady, consistent intel is key to staying on top. Persistent aerial perspective enables agents to fight drug smuggling, human trafficking, and combat other threats more efficiently. With an ST-Flex Guardian Class aerostat, mission operators can leverage increased mission availability, due to the ST-Flex’s ability to operate in higher winds, and more challenging weather conditions compared to manual aerostats and tethered drones. Altaeros aerostats feature a modular payload bay, that easily integrates with a wide variety of payload types, examples include, ISR, Radar, Narrow-Field Electro-optical/infrared, SIGINT, cUAS, MANET radios, Communications relay, and Multi-sector 4G/5G. This enables operators to actively search and evaluate potential threats, maintain awareness of all vehicles, drones, and other objects, and maintain strong comms signals so crews can stay connected. The Altaeros ST-Flex can be transported through ATTLA military air transport, it fits in a standard ISO container for transport over sea, or it can be towed by a commercial truck. With a max flight altitude of 1,000 ft, the Guardian Class ST-Flex brings unparalleled performance in a portable, rapidly deployable package. Check out our website and learn more about how an ST-Flex Guardian Class can help serve your mission here: altaeros.com/port-border-security
Altaeros Autonomous Aerostats - Military Operations with ST-Flex Altaeros 2024-04-16 | Protect and connect warfighters on the modern battlefield, using an Altaeros ST-Flex Guardian Class aerostat. With an ST-Flex Guardian Class aerostat, mission operators can leverage increased mission availability, due to the ST-Flex’s ability to operate in higher winds, and more challenging weather conditions compared to manual aerostats and tethered drones. Altaeros aerostats feature a modular payload bay, that easily integrates with a wide variety of payload types to fit any mission type, examples include, ISR, Radar, Narrow-Field Electro-optical/infrared, SIGINT, cUAS, MANET radios, Communications relay, Multi-sector 4G/5G The Altaeros ST-Flex can be transported through ATTLA military air transport, it fits in a standard ISO container for transport over sea, or towed by a commercial truck. With a max flight altitude of 1,000 ft, the Guardian Class ST-Flex brings unparalleled performance in a portable, rapidly deployable package. Check out our website and learn more about how an ST-Flex Guardian Class can help serve your mission here: altaeros.com/government
ST-Flex Guardian Class - Altaeros Latest Autonomous Aerostat Altaeros 2023-09-05 | Introducing: ST-Flex Guardian Class. Altaeros’ latest aerostat class is built to serve government missions including military operations, border security, and emergency response. Guardian Class builds upon the same framework as the original ST-Flex but adds options to customize your aerostat with ATTLA (MILAIR transport) certification, enhanced encryption, GPS hardening, and more. Harnessing Aerostat Autopilot, ST-Flex Guardian Class outperforms tethered drones and traditional aerostats availability while increasing safety by eliminating the need for an on-site crew during flight operations. Rapid deployment and simplified operations drive efficiency and cost savings in missions where performance is key. The release of the ST-Flex Guardian Class solidifies Altaeros’ rapid growth in the government sector and provides a flexible product roadmap to fit our customer's evolving requirements. Check out our new website and explore the ST-Flex Guardian Class here: www.altaeros.com
SoftBank Corp. and Altaeros Test Program - Hokkaido Spaceport, Taiki Town, Hokkaido, Japan Altaeros 2022-06-22 | SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”), Japan’s leading mobile carrier, completed initial testing of Altaeros’ ST-Flex™ autonomous aerostat. Operational and telecom tests were performed at Hokkaido Spaceport, Taiki Town, Hokkaido, Japan. Learn more about ST-Flex: www.altaeros.com SoftBank and Altaeros first launched the ST-Flex on May 2, 2022 and performed evaluation tests through May. ST-Flex carried SoftBank’s base station system, which was equipped with its proprietary cylindrical antenna that realizes communication area footprint fixation, to a height of 816 feet (249m), where it was connected to their ground equipment via optical fiber and power conductors embedded in the tethers. From SoftBank’s announcement: "The newly developed high-altitude tethered aerostat base station system was operable at higher altitudes and carried heavier communication payloads, and it also achieved wider area network coverage with greater communication stability during the trial” Details and additional results from SoftBank’s telecom testing can be found here: softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sbkk/2022/20220622_01
Discussion of SuperTower use cases with Director of Customer Solutions, Peter Mitton Altaeros 2021-11-04 | An interview with Director of Customer Solutions, Peter Mitton. Peter and his team of wireless technology experts work with our customers to build custom payload solutions that fit their exact needs. He sat down with us to discuss the types of solutions that we can build and what scenarios the ST-Flex is best suited for. Altaeros' flexible, payload agnostic platform, can host a wide variety of solutions to meet your needs. Learn more at www.altaeros.com
A Deep Dive on Aerostat Autopilot with CEO/CTO Ben Glass Altaeros 2021-10-12 | CEO/CTO Ben Glass gives an overview and description of the layers of Aerostat Autopilot and what that means for operators. Ben had the idea for Aerostat Autopilot and founded Altaeros when he was a graduate student at MIT in 2010. Since then, Aerostat Autopilot has gone from an idea on paper to a fully functioning feature on all of our SuperTower products! Learn more at www.altaeros.com
Conversation About The Creation of ST-Flex with VP of Engineering, Sheri Palazzo Altaeros 2021-09-28 | Altaeros VP of Engineering, Sheri Palazzo, sat down with us to discuss the design and build process of the ST-Flex. The ST-Flex went from a design on a piece of paper to a fully working system in just a little over a year. She also talks about our amazing engineering team! Does designing and building autonomous aerostats sound interesting? We're hiring: altaeros.com/careers Learn more at www.altaeros.com
Aerostat Chat and ST-Flex Tour with Director of Flights, Jason Sorinmade Altaeros 2021-09-15 | Altaeros Director of Flights, Jason Sorinmade, sits down to chat about how Altaeros aerostats differ from traditional aerostats and he gives an in-depth tour of the ST-Flex! Learn more about Altaeros aerostats: www.altaeros.com
Introducing: ST-Flex, Altaeros Rapidly Deployable Autonomous Aerostat Altaeros 2021-07-06 | Introducing ST-Flex! ST-Flex is a portable, rapidly deployable SuperTower designed to simplify and accelerate network deployments for rural connectivity, disaster response, industrial IoT, and many other data-intensive applications. ST-Flex will enable wireless communication providers to deploy advanced, seamless connectivity services worldwide.Featuring Interviews (In order of appearance)Ben Glass - CEO/CTO Jason Sorinmade - Director of FlightsSheri Palazzo - VP of Engineering Peter Mitton - Director of Customer Solutions Learn More: www.altaeros.com
Autonomous Control for Tethered Aerostats By Altaeros Altaeros 2020-10-08 | Altaeros has developed the world's most advanced autonomous control system for tethered aerostats. Advanced control eliminates the need for a ground crew during normal operations including launch and recovery. These unique capabilities have the potential to improve platform availability while significantly reducing operational costs. Altaeros SuperTowers are tethered aerostats built for delivering connectivity services to the people and communities who need it most. All Altaeros SuperTowers are powered by our advanced autonomous control system which allows us to provide affordable services in rural and hard-to-reach areas. Learn more at www.altaeros.comMusic: Interplanetary Forest -- Meydän https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Me... Used under CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Altaeros: Bringing Affordable Connectivity to Those Who Need it Most Altaeros 2020-04-07 | Altaeros’ mission is to bring affordable connectivity to those who need it most. Everyone should have access to the same basic building blocks that allow a fulfilling, prosperous life, whether they live in a megacity or in a rural village. We believe in the power of innovation to make this a reality.The SuperTower is a tethered, aerial cell tower designed to extend communication networks to areas in need. SuperTowers float over 800 feet off the ground and can carry a variety of payloads including 4G, 5G, IoT, fixed wireless, environmental monitoring, and others. Each SuperTower can replace numerous ground-based towers, offering a quicker and less expensive way to build communications infrastructure or roll out new technologies.Learn more on our website: www.altaeros.com
