I feel like this type of airship didn't quite pass the muster during the last go round...

Jokes aside, in the very unlikely event that they can keep their surveillance out of it, this is actually really cool tech.

Yeah... it's totally gonna be strictly for connectivity...

It's like starlink minus Kessler Sundrome

“We can stay over an area of operation, and we do that in the stratosphere right around 60,000 feet, so we’re twice as high as air traffic and we’re above the jet stream, and yet 30 times closer than low-Earth orbit satellites,” Mikkel Frandsen, founder and CEO of Sceye, told Ars. “We can fly through day and night until the sun comes up the next morning and recharges the batteries, at which point we’re still at the same altitude and still over the same area of operation.”

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?

usa so it will be used for spying and/or invasions