COST297 - HAPCOS

	New spin-out company. Vialight Communications www.vialight.de is a new company formed to provide optical communications especially with HAPs. It involves some of our HAPCOS partners associated with DLR, and builds from work undertaken within HAPCOS and related programmes such as CAPANINA. It is very gratifying to see these technologies move to commercial exploitation.

	An article on HAPs has been published in the Radio Science Bulletin of URSI. The authors are Jacob Gavan, S. Tapuchi, and David Grace. ... Download PDF

	HAPCOS Follow-on? Unfortunately our proposal for a follow-on action relating to HAPS and Remote Sensing was not successful. The next deadline for proposals to COST Office is 26th March 2010. Members and others are invited to come forward with new directions and proposals.

	New COST Action ES0802: Unmanned aerial systems in atmospheric research. This new Action ES0802 has some synergy with HAPCOS. Details here and here

	New ICT COST Action IC0802 "Propagation Tools and Data for Integrated Telecommunication, Navigation and Earth Observation Systems." ... Further details can be found here.

	The first European Future Technologies Conference (FET09 - Science beyond fiction, Prague 21-23 April 2009) has taken place. The latest FET Newsletter may also be seen here.

	Airship videos There do seem to be a lot of interesting new activities on aerial platforms. For example:- A video of the Flying Sensor's airship A "tadpole" airship test video from Bernd Kroeplin NASA's "Strato-Pumpkin"

	New book on HAPs! We are delighted to see a new book published on HAPs. I think this is the first one to appear, with more to come we know. One of the authors is José Delgado-Penín, who is a COST297 member. ... Further details can be found here

	COST Office News An edition of the short periodical about COST Office can be found here

	HAPs Workshop as part of Globecom This International Workshop on “Aerial & Space Platforms: Research, Applications, Vision” recently took place in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, 4 December 2008, in New Orleans. Click here to visit their homepage. A contribution was presented by outlining the work of COST297 and European activity in HAPs. ... Click here for the presentation

	HAPCOS Poster We have produced a Poster about COST297. This is for all members to use at conferences, exhibitions etc., as part of the general dissemination activity. , Please feel free to download it as either Powerpoint or PDF file.

	COST IC603 ASSIST This new Action has considerable momentum, and synergy with COST297. Please visit its website http://www.cost-ic0603.org/

	Hyperblimp Video There is a video of Dan Gerry's Hyperblimp flying in Utah. This moves at up to 50km per hour, and provides approx 700 g of payload lift. Some of you may have seen Dan flying his hyperblimps at the Prague HAPCOS meeting. ... YouTube video link

	*RESEARCHEU** This is the new magazine of the European Research Area. It can be accessed at the ec.europa.eu website.

	COST2100 COST2100 is concerned with Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications, and has evident synergy with HAPCOS. ... Details can be found here.

	COST Officers Our Senior Science Officer at the COST office in Brussels looking after HAPCOS is Gian Mario Maggio (formerly it was Julia Stamm). Gian Mario oversees our activities, and advises on policy and strategic aspects. His e-mail is gmmaggio@cost.esf.org

	Worldwide patent database - free access COST Office have drawn our attention to the largest worldwide patent database This website gives you free access to more than 50 million patent documents from all over the world representing technical developments from 1836 until today. In particular for the preparation of research projects within the 7th Framework Programme this tool with its easy to handle search engine can provide valuable assistance.

	Registration of Experts for Research Activities You can see here the Call for experts FP7. Click here for more details.

Overview
Establishment of HAPCOS
What are HAPS?
What are COST actions?

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