Blimp bits
Reason, Nov, 2006 by Jeff A. Taylor
The first Stratellite, a robot airship 13 miles up, is tested in the Mojave Desert. The idea is to use the ships as cheap platforms for communications gear. The $3 million blimps could bring modern communications to the far corners of the unwired Earth.
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