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Google Buys Solar-Powered UAV Firm Titan Aerospace

Titan Aerospace unveiled its Solara UAS at the Unmanned Systems 2013 conference last August. (Photo: Bill Carey)

April 15, 2014

For the second time in less than a month, a major Internet-related company has acquired a firm developing a high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which could serve as a node to provide Internet connectivity from the stratosphere. On April 14, Google confirmed that it has acquired Titan Aerospace of Moriarty, N.M., developer of the Solara “atmospheric satellite."

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