High-speed connectivity,
lighter than air.
Aerealta builds solid-state stratospheric airships — silent ion-wind blimps stationed from 3 to 20 km — carrying affordable broadband and live Earth monitoring across entire nations.
A network that floats where it's needed.
Satellites sit hundreds of kilometres up. Towers and fibre stop where the map runs out. Aerealta works the layer in between — the patient, near-space air from the lower troposphere into the stratosphere.
Each airship loiters quietly over a region, covering a wide footprint of ground, and can be repositioned, recovered and relaunched as demand moves. No constellation to deorbit. No trenches to dig.
The result is infrastructure that behaves less like hardware and more like a service: connectivity and observation, on station, when and where a nation needs it.
Wide coverage
A single craft at altitude can serve a footprint that would take dozens of ground masts to match.
Recoverable
Unlike satellites, airships come home — to be serviced, upgraded and flown again.
Repositionable
Move the network to follow demand, disaster response, or a passing harvest season.
No propellers. No engines. An ionic wind.
Aerealta's airships are driven by electroaerodynamic propulsion — thrust made entirely from electricity and the surrounding air.
Between two electrodes we raise a very high voltage. The intense field strips electrons from nearby air molecules, ionising them. Those charged particles rush toward the opposite electrode and, on the way, collide with millions of ordinary air molecules — dragging them along. That coherent flow is the ionic wind, and its reaction is thrust.
The principle famously powered MIT's first ion-propelled aircraft in 2018. It has zero moving parts, makes no noise, and is built for the long, undramatic station-keeping the stratosphere rewards.
Bandwidth shouldn't depend on where you're born.
Connectivity, cheaply
High-speed access delivered at a fraction of the cost of satellites — reaching the places fibre and towers leave behind.
Across nations
A continuous overhead layer that crosses borders and terrain — built to serve whole regions, not just dense cities.
Eyes on Earth
The same platform carries sensors for climate, agriculture, disaster response and infrastructure — a live monitoring layer for the planet.
Built in Rome, aimed at the sky.
Aerealta is an aerospace company founded in Roma, Italia. We're a small team building patient, solid-state airships for the layer of sky the rest of the industry skips.
AEREA · of the air, airborne, light
LTA · lighter‑than‑air
AEREALTA · the high, light air — and the altitude we fly it at