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AUVSI Xponential 2019 | Show report MicroLink Devices attended Xponential to discuss its continuing collaborations in the HALE UAV sector. “We are the only solar cell provider for the Airbus Zephyr S platform, and the UK’s Ministry of Defence has bought three of those from Airbus,” said Ray Chan. “We deliver solar sheets to Airbus, and they carry out the sheets’ integration into the Zephyr’s wings.” MicroLink’s solar cell is a triple- junction structure: an (Al)InGaP/GaAs/ InGaAs inverted metamorphic PV cell. The cell has a power density of 300 W/m 2 at AM1.5 (roughly ground-level atmospheric thickness), or 382 W/m 2 at AM0 (zero atmospheric thickness), with rated efficiencies of 30% in the former and 28% in the latter. “We’re looking to improve those figures wherever possible as the HALE market grows. We’re now supplying solar arrays to the BAE Systems PHASA-35 aircraft as well,” Chan added. GPS Networking exhibited its GPS Indoor Testing Solution (ITS), which is designed to enable UAV manufacturers to test or demonstrate newly integrated GNSS receivers from indoor (or other GNSS-denied) facilities. “The key part is the GPS re-radiating kit,” said Steven Waite. “We receive the GPS signal through a roof-mounted MicroLink Devices solar arrays on an Airbus Zephyr S wing