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"Airships have spent the better part of a century as a punchline. We picture
the Hindenburg, or a Goodyear blimp wallowing over a stadium at halftime, and
quietly file the whole lighter-than-air idea under “nice try, wrong decade.” So
it would be easy to scroll past the news that a company in New Mexico just kept
one in the sky for 12 straight days. You probably shouldn’t.
Between March 25 and April 6, a solar-powered airship called
SE2, built by a
startup named Sceye (it rhymes with “sky”), flew about 6,400 miles from New
Mexico to the coast of Brazil and spent the entire trip cruising above 52,000
feet, close to 10 miles up and well past where airliners fly and where weather
happens. Sceye isn’t selling it as a stunt. It’s selling it as a cheaper
stand-in for a satellite, the kind you can steer, land in the ocean on purpose,
and fly again."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
