Interesting article : Stratospheric Airship

Navy asks Near Space Systems to design a stratospheric airship as an alternative to satellite-based surveillance and communications (taken from www.militaryaerospace.com) May 27, 2010   Posted by John Keller LAKEHURST, N.J., 27 May 2010. Aerostat designers at Near Space Systems Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colo., are defining requirements for a lighter-than-air stratospheric airship and sensor and communications payloads to provide continuous military communications and persistent surveillance sensing capabilities as an...

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