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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s like starlink minus Kessler Sundrome

  “We can stay over an area of operation, and we do that in the stratosphere right around 60,000 feet, so we’re twice as high as air traffic and we’re above the jet stream, and yet 30 times closer than low-Earth orbit satellites,” Mikkel Frandsen, founder and CEO of Sceye, told Ars. “We can fly through day and night until the sun comes up the next morning and recharges the batteries, at which point we’re still at the same altitude and still over the same area of operation.”

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always dreamed of living on an airship in the stratosphere. It was my go to sleep dream when I was about 6.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      funny. I have only recently thought about this because of the hybrid airships.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Genuinely interesting technology, which is so rare these days LOL. But I have questions:

  1. Cell towers cover a much smaller area, and are connected with wires. How is an airship going to cover a larger area with more traffic, without wires? It says it flies “in disasters” so maybe the traffic is prioritized somehow for emergency communications?

  2. Looking at the photos, it looks like it has a few hundred watts of solar, how the hell is that powering this thing 24/7?

  3. It says they have plans for “year-round operation”. Surely it would leak down eventually? Or run out of power during cloudy conditions or unavoidable winds/rain? Or is 60k feet above all of that?

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• eremophila@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  usa so it will be used for spying and/or invasions

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