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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up

Posted March 20, 2014 11:18 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that.Designed to be about the length of a football field...    

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Re: Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up

03/20/2014 9:22 PM

Can this be done?.. absolutely!

Can this be done in all markets?... Well those markets not paranoid about aircraft at this altitude it certainly plausibly can be done.

Can some markets be profitable enough to fill an unscratched niche with this approach... This is "the rub" that I and my investment banker wished we could answer.

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