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Zephyr soars into the commercial market

16th November 2017 - 16:47 GMT | by Beth Maundrill in London

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The Zephyr UAS is set to enter the commercial market at the end of 2018 as Airbus Aerial touts the platform as part of its commercial services offering.

Airbus Aerial, a commercial business unit set up in May 2017, is looking to offer the Airbus Defence and Space (DS) high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) platform as a long range, persistent coverage platform.

Additional new platforms would be built based on customer demand and Airbus Aerial would essentially be a customer for the Zephyr, Jesse Kallman, president of Airbus Aerial, told Shephard at the Commercial UAV show in London.

Airbus DS is currently

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Beth is Deputy Editor - Land at Shephard Media, managing coverage across all formats of …

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