Second Round of Tests
Seattle, Washington - Feb. 13, 2006 - LiftPort Group, the space elevator
companies, today announced that it has successfully completed its second
round of preliminary tests of its high altitude platform and robotic
lifters. The tests, which were conducted under a waiver to use airspace
granted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), used prototypes of
proprietary technology the company is developing for use in the LiftPort
Space Elevator, the company's revolutionary way to ferry cargo into
space.
In this phase of testing, conducted earlier this month in Arizona,
LiftPort successfully launched an observation and communication platform
a full mile in the air and maintained it in a stationary position for
more than six hours while robotic lifters climbed up and down a ribbon
attached to the platform. The platform, a proprietary system that the
company has named "HALE" (High Altitude Long Endurance), was secured in
place by an arrangement of high altitude balloons, which were also used
to launch it. The robotic lifters measured five feet, six inches and
climbed to a height of more than 1500 feet, surpassing its last test
record by more than 500 feet.
http://www.liftport.com/index.php?site=news&news_id=3
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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