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A New Surveillance Tool in U.S. Skies
An Arizona company developing a new type of high-altitude, long-range surveillance platform just completed a 16-day mission during which massive balloons floated over four western U.S. states, all part of an effort to someday keep them aloft for months at a time. World View Enterprises Inc. builds what it calls Stratollites,... (finance.yahoo.com) Más...
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I don't know, but that is a good question. If you go to WVE's website, it looks like they have other possible uses in mind. So, who knows?
I've seen flying around SE Arizona a couple of times. Pretty interesting. In fact, I have a pic of one of them in my FA gallery here:
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/729112-9c1d641b7e955ee8bfe0eb2f42d744f16a94d729/user/byingtongh/sort/date/page/4
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/729112-9c1d641b7e955ee8bfe0eb2f42d744f16a94d729/user/byingtongh/sort/date/page/4
Wow that is interesting. Quite magnificent how they keep in the air for so long.
Interesting. I wonder how long that will last, though.
