High-altitude persistent drones and HAPS platforms for Earth observation and communications
NewSpace Research and Technologies designs long-endurance UAVs and High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) systems operating at 5–20 km altitude with flight times from days to months—a domain with only a handful of global competitors. The tech stack reveals a deep embedded-systems orientation: Xilinx FPGA tools (RFSoC, Vivado, Vitis), FPGA design languages (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog), Linux kernel work (PetaLinux, Yocto, Buildroot, U-Boot), and cryptographic primitives (OpenSSL, TLS, IPsec, AES, RSA)—typical of aerospace-grade avionics.
NewSpace Research and Technologies develops persistent-flight UAV and HAPS platforms for Earth observation and communications markets. Based in Bengaluru and founded in 2018, the company operates across the full aerospace stack: flight control systems, composite airframe manufacturing, RF/5G communications modules, embedded Linux BSPs, and perception algorithms. Their workforce of 501–1,000 spans engineering (the dominant function), operations, manufacturing, and small sales and logistics teams, reflecting a products-and-manufacturing-first business model. Active projects span embedded software for FPGA-based processors, aircraft structural prototyping, composite damage testing, and flight-control systems, alongside device driver and platform BSP work—all grounded in supply-chain constraints and the need to align design with manufacturing techniques and regulatory compliance (DO-178C).
Core stack includes Xilinx FPGAs (RFSoC, Zynq, Altera), FPGA design (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog), embedded Linux (PetaLinux, Yocto, Buildroot, U-Boot), C++14, Python, Rust, cryptography (OpenSSL, TLS, IPsec, AES, RSA), and RF/5G communications.
Persistent-flight UAVs and High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) platforms operating at 5–20 km altitude with endurance from days to months, plus flight-control systems, RF communications, and embedded perception models.
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