What is High Altitude Pseudo Satellite Vehicle? | UPSC | Drishti IAS English

Last week, the Bengaluru-based National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) successfully flew a prototype of a new-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is being seen as a huge technology breakthrough. It was no ordinary UAV. This one can fly at great heights, about 20 km from ground, runs entirely on solar power, and can remain in the air for months on end. Such UAVs belong to a class of flying objects called HAPS, or high-altitude pseudo-satellite vehicles, or HALE, that is high-altitude long-endurance vehicles. The primary utility of HAPS vehicles is in the field of surveillance and monitoring, but there are other situations, like disaster management, wherein it can be very useful.
HAPS technology is still under development. Several countries, and companies, have developed and flown such vehicles with encouraging success, but none has mastered the technology yet. The world record for a vehicle of this class is held by the Airbus-manufactured Zephyr, which flew continuously for 64 days in August 2022 before crashing.
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[@dhavalkakkad9618]

option c - anti missile system that can intercept missiles both in and out of earth''s atmosphere and can intercept long, short and medium range missiles

[@tushar.nigam.]

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[@vaishnavishriyasrivastava703]

option c
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[@FastPitF1]

the answer will be option C- An american anti-missile system

[@dheerajverma2220]

Thanks mam

[@ramyam8871]

Option C: An American anti-missile system

[@nupurdas3074]

B