since airbus spun off the new start—up company aalto in 2023, it's now being pitched for earth observations a flying base station for mobile phones. from the stratosphere, at 60,000 or 70,000 feet, we can talk directly to a standard mobile phone, so the aircraft will function exactly like the cell tower that you have today, but it's high up. and because it's so high, so much higher up than the regular cell tower, it can cover the equivalent of about 200 base stations on the ground. so of course, that replaces notjust the, you know, the equipment on the tower, but it replaces the whole tower. that's the steel, that's the backhaul, the fibre, the microwave. very importantly, the power, the electricity or the diesel that runs the tower, and in many cases in remote and rural areas, that's the most expensive part of running a terrestrial tower. an uplink antenna would connect the mobile network to zephyr, and then zephyr could serve an area of 7,500 square kilometres, in theory for months at a time. this is a real proposition. or, in the event of, say, a natural disaster, a plane could be flown

since airbus spun off the new start—up company aalto in 2023, it's now being pitched for earth observationns on the ground. so of course, that replaces notjust the, you know, the equipment on the tower, but it replaces the whole tower. that's the steel, that's the backhaul, the fibre, the microwave. very importantly, the power, the electricity or the diesel that runs the tower, and in many cases in remote and rural areas, that's the most expensive part of running a terrestrial tower. an uplink antenna would connect the mobile network to zephyr, and then zephyr could serve an area of 7,500 square kilometres, in theory for months at a time. this is a real proposition. or, in the event of, say, a natural disaster, a plane could be flown to an area that had suddenly become cut off from the grid. mobile operators have something called cell on wheels, cow, which is usually a truck that has some equipment. we have a cell on wings, a flying cow, which is flying cell on wings. these cows...er, planes will fly autonomously. there are no joysticks involved. the pilots send the plane's coordinates and