Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.

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Genuinely interesting technology, which is so rare these days LOL. But I have questions:

  1. Cell towers cover a much smaller area, and are connected with wires. How is an airship going to cover a larger area with more traffic, without wires? It says it flies "in disasters" so maybe the traffic is prioritized somehow for emergency communications?

  2. Looking at the photos, it looks like it has a few hundred watts of solar, how the hell is that powering this thing 24/7?

  3. It says they have plans for "year-round operation". Surely it would leak down eventually? Or run out of power during cloudy conditions or unavoidable winds/rain? Or is 60k feet above all of that?

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