The Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS) has published the airworthiness recommendations for High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS).
The CH-HAPS document is available on the JARUS website and consists of a HAPS safety concept to cover:
- Automated functions and human interventions
- Human factors for mission control centres
- Conditional initial airworthiness considering a possible mission duration of several months
- Sharing intent to allow a collaborative traffic management
- Models and simulations for sharing intent and conditional initial airworthiness
- A set of recommendations including structural recommendations for HTA fixed wing HAPS and LTA airship HAPS
- References to EASA certification specifications
- References to acceptable level of risk for HAPS and other valuable documents from the HAPS Alliance
- Reference to the Aerospace Industries Association proposal for cooperative operations in higher airspace
JARUS plans to further elaborate on requirements for LTA balloon HAPS in the next issue of the CS-HAPS.
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Image: The AALTO Zephyr is one of the most persistent fixed-wing High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) in operation today (AALTO)
