Trace Stevenson

HAPSMobile, Inc. is a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. and minority-owned by AeroVironment Inc. The joint venture company is based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company aims to bridge the world's digital divide through its high altitude platform station (HAPS) business. HAPSMobile is primarily engaged in network equipment research and development for the HAPS business, construction of core networks, new business planning, and activities for spectrum usage. The company has a strategic relationship with Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. HAPSMobile's minority owner, AeroVironment, Inc., is also its aircraft development partner for "SunGlider," a solar-powered unmanned aircraft designed for stratospheric telecommunications platform systems that flies approximately 20kms above ground in the stratosphere. The CEO of the company is Junichi Miyakawa.