Fifteen years after it first tried to establish solar-powered unmanned aircraft as high-flying cell towers, AeroVironment has formed a joint venture with Japanese telecommunications provider SoftBank to develop “high-altitude pseudo-satellites,” or HAPS. The venture, Japan-based HAPSMobile, is 95%...
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