HAPS cooperative flight system

A management apparatus for managing a plurality of radio relay apparatuses that performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus,

• wherein the management apparatus:
• acquires information including a current position of each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses that is a solar-plane-type or airship-type floating object movably provided by flying in an upper airspace and forms a cell toward the ground or the sea to perform a radio communication with a terminal apparatus located in the cell, from each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses via a gateway station on the ground or on the sea;
• and
• transmits control information for controlling so that the plurality of radio relay apparatuses repeatedly fly in circulation along a same cyclic flight route while forming a three-dimensional cell in a direction inclined from a vertical direction by its own rolling of the radio relay apparatus, in cooperation with each other so as to maintain a positional relationship between the radio relay apparatuses, and so that the plurality of radio relay apparatuses perform a cooperative flight so that a flight direction of the radio relay apparatus and an attitude with respect to the flight direction are the same among the radio relay apparatuses as each other, to each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses via the gateway station, based on the information on the plurality of radio relay apparatuses.

A system comprising a plurality of radio relay apparatuses for performing a radio communication with a terminal apparatus,

• wherein each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses:
• is a solar-plane-type or airship-type floating object movably provided by flying in an upper airspace;
• comprises a radio relay station for forming a cell toward the ground or the sea to perform a radio communication with a terminal apparatus located in the cell;
• and
• repeatedly flies in circulation along a same cyclic flight route while forming a three-dimensional cell in a direction inclined from a vertical direction by its own rolling of the radio relay apparatus, in cooperation with each other so as to maintain a positional relationship between the radio relay apparatuses by an autonomous control or external control, and
• wherein, when a flight pattern of any one radio relay apparatus of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses changes, other radio relay apparatuses are controlled to fly in same flight pattern as the changed flight pattern of the any one radio relay apparatus.

A management apparatus for managing a plurality of radio relay apparatuses that performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus,

• wherein the management apparatus:
• acquires information including a current position of each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses that is a solar-plane-type or airship-type floating object movably provided by flying in an upper airspace and forms a cell toward the ground or the sea to perform a radio communication with a terminal apparatus located in the cell, from each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses via a gateway station on the ground or on the sea;
• and
• transmits control information for controlling so that the plurality of radio relay apparatuses repeatedly fly in circulation along a same cyclic flight route while forming a three-dimensional cell in a direction inclined from a vertical direction by its own rolling of the radio relay apparatus, in cooperation with each other so as to maintain a positional relationship between the radio relay apparatuses, and so that, when a flight pattern of any one radio relay apparatus of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses changes, other radio relay apparatuses fly in same flight pattern as the changed flight pattern of the any one radio relay apparatus, to each of the plurality of radio relay apparatuses via the gateway station, based on the information on the plurality of radio relay apparatuses.