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Airbus’ Solar Powered Zephyr Plane: Everything You Need To Know

Simple Flying 12 Oct 2021
This saw the plane make a total of six flights, of which four were at low-altitude, and two were stratospheric. Six flights may not necessarily sound like a lot, but each of the stratospheric journeys lasted a staggering 18 days ... Flying in the stratosphere, the plane has direct exposure to sunlight, which it harnesses to power its solar cells.
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Soaring to New Heights - Innovation drives the creation of high-altitude aircraft and stratospheric “cell towers” (AeroVironment Inc)

Public Technologies 05 May 2021
) Soaring to New Heights - Innovation drives the creation of high-altitude aircraft and stratospheric 'cell towers'. May 05, 2021 ... Additional AV News.click here. AV Media Gallery.click here. Attachments Original document Permalink. Disclaimer ... (noodl.
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Blue jets and elves lightning

Democratic Underground 09 Feb 2021
Blue jets are electric discharges of several hundred millisecond duration that fan into cones as they propagate from the top of thunderclouds into the stratosphere ... We observe five intense, approximately 10-microsecond blue flashes from a thunderstorm cell.
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Google Kills Moonshot Project Loon, a ‘Hot Balloon’ Version of SpaceX Starlink

New York Observer 22 Jan 2021
Loon was started in 2011 as an idea to bring cellular and internet connectivity to the most remote areas of the world by deploying giant helium balloons as floating cell towers in Earth’s stratosphere ... But instead of giant balloons, Taara aims to replace traditional cell ...
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Google 4G balloons are guided by AI

The Philadelphia Inquirer 08 Dec 2020
The balloons can navigate the stratosphere in an autonomous and stable fashion, enhancing the internet coverage of these floating cell towers ... .
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Google's AI can keep Loon balloons flying for over 300 days in a row

New Scientist 03 Dec 2020
An artificially intelligent pilot created by Google and Loon can keep huge stratospheric balloons in the air for hundreds of days at a time to act as floating cell towers in remote areas ... .
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Airborne antenna developed to beam 5G from the stratosphere

The Engineer 04 Nov 2020
Our role, to design and build this ‘mega cell tower in the stratosphere’, has seen us make breakthrough after breakthrough and we’re excited to build on these innovations with SPL, on the path to commercial deployment.”. The post Airborne antenna developed to beam 5G from the stratosphere appeared first on The Engineer.
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5G: Using drones to beam signals from the stratosphere

BBC News 03 Nov 2020
Stratospheric Platforms and Cambridge Consultants say they could cover the whole of the UK with about 60 drones ... But the chief executive of Stratospheric Platforms says using hydrogen fuel cells is a superior solution ... "Getting a network of constantly flying drones in the stratosphere within three or four years would be difficult.".
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Cambridge Consultants takes off with airborne 5G

Computer Weekly 03 Nov 2020
... stratospheric air was difficult ... Our role, to design and build this ‘mega cell tower in the stratosphere’, has seen us make breakthrough after breakthrough, and we’re excited to build on these innovations with SPL, on the path to commercial deployment.” Read more about UK 5G.
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Loon signs deal to expand commercial internet service to Mozambique

Crunch 13 May 2020
The stratospheric positioning means they can cover a much wider area than ground-based cell towers, and reach areas where it’s been hard due to costs or accessibility to actually put in ground towers to begin with.
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Alphabet’s Loon partners with AT&T; to extend coverage globally in case of disasters

Crunch 06 May 2020
Alphabet-owned Loon, the company focused on providing connectivity via high-altitude, stratosphere skimming balloons that can act as on-demand, deployable cell towers, has signed a new agreement with AT&T;.
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Elon Musk says Starlink internet private beta to begin in roughly three months, public beta ...

Crunch 23 Apr 2020
He said on Twitter that a private beta for Starlink would begin in around three months, with a public beta to kick off roughly three months after that ... A number of satellite and other projects aim to address this gap, including Alphabet-owned Loon, which is using stratospheric balloons to act as cell towers to provide access to had-to-reach places. .
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Ozone Recovery Is Restoring The Antarctic's Wind Systems

IFL Science 30 Mar 2020
Through the 1980s and '90s, the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitude jet stream shifted 2º towards the pole and the tropical circulation known as the Hadley Cell experienced greater overturning ... light, warming the troposphere where we live and cooling the stratosphere above.
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Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile team with Airbus, China Telecom and more on stratospheric cell networks

Crunch 21 Feb 2020
Which could mean big things for stratospheric networks, which have the advantages of being closer to Earth than satellite-based internet offerings, but also avoid the disadvantages of ground-based cell towers like having to deal with difficult terrain or more limited range.
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Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank Corp.’s HAPSMobile Complete Development of Communications Payload for HAWK30 Aircraft

The Marshall News Messenger 06 Feb 2020
(“HAPSMobile”) today announced they successfully developed a communications payload for HAPSMobile’s HAWK30, a solar-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that flies in the stratosphere ... The communications payload jointly developed by Loon and HAPSMobile consists of a number of components that enable it to serve as a stratospheric cell tower.
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