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Another airship program; The Missile Defense Agency is developing another large airship, known as the High Altitude Airship, or HAA, that would operate at the near ... ISIS is scheduled for a reduced scale prototype flight in 2009, with plans for a full-scale demonstration to be determined afterwards, Wechsberg said.
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In 2001, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $40 million contract to work on the High Altitude Airship, a 500-foot-long (152-meter-long) blimp, 25 times larger than the Goodyear blimp and much more capable than the Ascender and could loiter at ... 23 Comments to “Pentagon Plans Airship UAVs”...
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Published: Tue, Dec. 11, 2007 12:00AM Modified Tue, Dec. 11, 2007 02:25AM ... Columbia, Md.-based TCOM plans to produce unmanned, tethered balloons called aerostats under an Army contract for use in emergency communications in natural disasters.
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The team plans "high-altitude platforms" (HAPs) that will be permanently located aloft at an altitude of 20 km. The target is to provide access rates of 120Mbit/s anywhere within an HAPs' 60-km diameter coverage area.
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The CargoLifter will fulfil this new role as heavy loads transport vehicle. It is a 242 meters long and 61 meters wide transport airship with a maximum speed of 135 km/h. ... According to the team's ambitious plans the CargoLifter will make huge profits by 2007 at the latest.
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The two companies say they hope to have the 302-foot long airship ready for commercial service by 2012, although the marriage of helicopter and lighter-than-air technologies will require them to overcome some significant hurdles that doomed an attempt at a similar contraption in the mid-1980s.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 ... For when I get down to business with mapping out the Summer Wanderer... ... Posted by Gotthammer at 3:33 PM...
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