This ‘Cell Tower in the Sky’ Just Completed a Record-Breaking 18,641-Mile Round Trip to Japan
An oblong silver airship recently completed a 30-day journey, flying through Earth’s stratosphere to deliver mobile broadband connectivity to cellphones. Aerospace company Sceye launched its Service Test 1 (ST1) mission on August 9 for a trans-Pacific flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. “The stratosphere is what will enable the always-on future—including the promised land of 6G.” Going up Sceye’s experimental vehicles, officially called High Altitude Platform Systems, are designed to operate like cell towers in the sky.
- ▪An oblong silver airship recently completed a 30-day journey, flying through Earth’s stratosphere to deliver mobile broadband connectivity to cellphones.
- ▪Aerospace company Sceye launched its Service Test 1 (ST1) mission on August 9 for a trans-Pacific flight from New Mexico to Japan and back.
- ▪“The stratosphere is what will enable the always-on future—including the promised land of 6G.” Going up Sceye’s experimental vehicles, officially called High Altitude Platform Systems, are designed to operate like cell towers in the sky.
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An oblong silver airship recently completed a 30-day journey, flying through Earth’s stratosphere to deliver mobile broadband connectivity to cellphones. Aerospace company Sceye launched its Service Test 1 (ST1) mission on August 9 for a trans-Pacific flight from New Mexico to Japan and back. The airship operated for a week over Japan to test its capability to provide high-speed connectivity from the stratosphere for emergency and disaster response…
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