An aircraft that operates in the atmosphere at high altitudes for extended periods of time in order to provide services that are traditionally provided by an artificial satellite orbiting in space is referred to as an atmospheric satellite, which is a marketing term. Another term for this type of aircraft is a pseudo-satellite.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Atmospheric satellite

Chapter 2: Aerobot

Chapter 3: Unmanned aerial vehicle

Chapter 4: NASA Pathfinder

Chapter 5: AeroVironment

Chapter 6: History of unmanned aerial vehicles

Chapter 7: Electric aircraft

Chapter 8: NASA ERAST Program

Chapter 9: General Atomics Altus

Chapter 10: Airbus Zephyr

Chapter 11: DRDO Rustom

Chapter 12: AeroVironment Helios Prototype

Chapter 13: Aurora Flight Sciences

Chapter 14: Boeing Phantom Eye

Chapter 15: AeroVironment Global Observer

Chapter 16: NASA Centurion

Chapter 17: AirStrato

Chapter 18: Facebook Aquila

Chapter 19: Aurora Odysseus

Chapter 20: HAPSMobile

Chapter 21: BAE Systems PHASA-35

(II) Answering the public top questions about atmospheric satellite.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of atmospheric satellite in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of atmospheric satellite' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of atmospheric satellite.