Operating at the Edge of Space
less expensive and have several technical advantages. These vehicles will enable cities, companies, schools, and potentially even individuals to find new applications. Applications will include emergency communication, early fire detection, real-time-traffic monitoring, stratospheric research etc. This talk will be taped. Speaker: Jeff Klagenberg Jeff Klagenberg is the President and CEO of General Orbital. Prior to joining General Orbital, Mr. Klagenberg built a unique combination of …
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quite interesting, this business of replacing satellites with high altitude blimps.
Cities could buy their own, and write it off as infrastructure. As well as phone/TV/internet, it could also offer a single ultra-high-res video feed to all, real-time local Google Earth.
The brilliant advantage it has over satellites is that if you ever want to upgrade it – you just land it, do your work, and then put it back up. A few “backup” blimps could travel from city to city as needed for less downtime
Sorry I take it back, wish I could edit previous comments. LEO is not geo stationary and this functionality would offer quite a bit of uses. Although I would imagine staying still enough to focus a tv dish at would be impossible.
I can launch with spacex to leo for around 100,000kg for 9 million and I have more faith that they will succeed. The only time I can see this being superior is if there is only a short term need or if you want to swap out // upgrade equipment every few months.