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Appendix-I Request For Proposal (RFP) For High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP)

The document requests proposals for a High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP) capable of station-keeping over four major Indian cities for 3 months each while carrying a 100kg communications payload requiring 1000W of continuous power. The HALEAP must maintain its position within 5km x 5km of the designated location and be able to relocate to the next city within 5 days without landing, operating between altitudes of 15-20km. Design of the HALEAP must account for ambient wind patterns based on referenced atmospheric models.

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Appendix-I Request For Proposal (RFP) For High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP)

The document requests proposals for a High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP) capable of station-keeping over four major Indian cities for 3 months each while carrying a 100kg communications payload requiring 1000W of continuous power. The HALEAP must maintain its position within 5km x 5km of the designated location and be able to relocate to the next city within 5 days without landing, operating between altitudes of 15-20km. Design of the HALEAP must account for ambient wind patterns based on referenced atmospheric models.

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Appendix-I

Request for Proposal (RFP) for

High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP)


Background
In recent years, there is an increasing interest in the development of aerial platforms that
have long endurance while operating at high altitudes, for telecommunications, digital
broadcasting, and remote sensing applications. Such systems can be utilized as multi-
mission platform to increase the cost-effectiveness and affordability for these applications.
These systems are required to maintain a quasi-stationary position while operating in the
lower altitudes of Stratosphere, where ambient wind speeds are of low magnitude.

Problem Statement
Design a High Altitude Long Endurance Aerial Platform (HALEAP) for station-keeping at four
fixed locations, and moving between them, while carrying a dedicated communications
payload.
Mission Requirements
1. The HALEAP must be able to maintain its position over a Metro city for around three
months, and the relocated to another Metro city within five days, as follows:
Midnight of 31st December to Midnight of 25th March: Over Delhi
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Midnight of 31 March to Midnight of 25 June: Over Kolkata
Midnight of 30th June to Midnight of 25th September: Over Chennai
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Midnight of 30 September to Midnight of 25 December: Over Mumbai
2. The HALEAP may be deployed at any altitude between 15 km and 20 km AMSL, but
it should be able to always maintain its location within a ground footprint of 5 km x 5
km during the entire period of deployment at a particular station.
3. The system should be able to generate adequate power to maintain station, and to
relocate to the next location within five days, without the need to bring it down.
4. The HALEAP should be able to cater for a continuous power consumption of 1000 W
by a payload weighing 100 kg.
5. The HALEAP should be able to take-off and land within 2 km @ ISA sea-level.
6. Assume all flight operations are conducted in Indian Reference Atmosphere (IRA).
However, the variation in the magnitude and direction of ambient winds must be
considered while designing the HALEAP, using models such as the Horizontal Wind
Model developed by US Naval Research Laboratory in 20081, and updated in 20152.

1
Drob, D. P., et al. (2008), An empirical model of the Earth’s horizontal wind fields: HWM07, J. Geophys. Res.,
113, A12304, doi:10.1029/2008JA013668.
2
Drob, D. P., et al. (2015), An update to the Horizontal Wind Model (HWM): The quiet time thermosphere,
Earth and Space Science, 2, 301–319, doi:10.1002/2014EA000089

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