Airships

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Presently there are two types of wireless infrastructure in general use – terrestrial, which relies on antennas placed on cell towers and rooftops, and satellites, which are placed in orbit 500 to 22,000 miles above the earth. Terrestrial networks are expensive, require long lead times and often have interference in the line-of-sight necessary for good coverage. Satellites, on the other hand, cannot remain over a single geographic area indefinitely, are expensive to build and launch, and are generally considered to be non-recoverable, allowing both the satellite and the technology on board to become obsolete.
CYBER will partner with other aerospace companies to build the patent applied for high altitude airship product or Modular Airborne Reconnaissance System or M.A.R.S.™. Successful test flights have been made over the last two years with a 60’ prototype airship. Functionally, the M.A.R.S.™ Airship can be compared to a 13-mile high tower. Line of sight can be greater than 325 miles in any direction.

The M.A.R.S.™ has patent applied for technology that is a lighter than air semi-rigid airship utilizing a spherical chamber for each of the gas chambers. The area between the spherical chambers is covered with a reinforced fairing. The vehicle is designed to be modular in that it can be as few as two spheres up to as many as is required to lift the weight to the desired altitude. The benefit here is that the sphere size does not change. The number of spheres is determined by the payload requirement. The manufacturing process would only require tooling for a single size sphere. The power plants may incorporate the use of reversible pitch propellers. This along with a rotation feature would allow the vehicle to rise and descend vertically as well as fly forward and backwards. The area outside the spheres but inside the fairings could be used for such payloads as satellite antennas or other payloads that required protection without taking up valuable volume from the lift gas spheres. Because they are mounted under the fairings these additional payloads do not affect the aerodynamics of the airship.