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Sceye's helium-filled airship is readying 20 kilometers in the sky, kept afloat by a combination of solar and battery power
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Later this year, a certain airship will lift off from New Mexico to embark on a Pacific crossing for its longest flight yet.
Key facts
- HAPS has a wide coverage,” says Animesh Yadav of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, also unaffiliated with Sceye
- Could base stations 20 kilometers in the sky reduce latency
- Sceye's helium-filled airship will launch 20 kilometers in the sky, kept afloat by a combination of solar and battery power
- There, the airship’s builder, New Mexico–based Sceye, and its funder and partner, the Japanese telecom giant SoftBank Corp
Summary
Sceye's helium-filled airship will launch 20 kilometers in the sky, kept afloat by a combination of solar and battery power. They are not alone in planning base stations in the stratosphere. “There is still, in my view, some work to be done on the aerospace part to perfect the aircraft, but this technology is coming,” says Halim Yanikomeroglu of Carleton University, in Ottawa, who is unaffiliated with Sceye. Sceye’s craft is an example of a high-altitude platform station (HAPS), delivering Internet access from Earth’s stratosphere.