With this year’s Barcelona Mobile World Congress focused more than previous events on the future of mobile networks generally, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) came higher up the agenda. High Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) fill the gap between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites starting above 160km, and terrestrial networks. UK-based Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) and Airbus subsidiary Aalto were two HAPS companies at MWC, with Aalto stealing the show as it suspended its Zephyr fixed-wing craft from the convention center ceiling in Hall 4. NTNs in general received prominent attention in a Deutsche Telekom announcement on direct-to-IoT device satellite connectivity in partnership with Intelsat and Skylo, a satellite connectivity provider. Also present was Barcelona-based IoT LEO constellation specialist Sateliot, recently featured in Wireless…