Stratospheric Ships are Coming
November 19, 2008A new research report Persistent High Altitude Aerial Platforms & Payloads: Private Industry & Defense Applications Forecast – 2009-2015 high altitude airship by Homeland Security Research Corporation (HSRC) details which high altitude airship technologies are ready, which companies can build them, the US & foreign competitors, coming market disruptions, & which market segments will be most profitable to 2015 and beyond.
The report comes to conclusion that persistent aerial platforms, or unmanned flight vehicles (airships now, UAVs after 2012) that will fly above 19km altitude for weeks to years at a time, will revolutionize several industries:
- Defense industry will see reductions in both high-flying UAVs and low-flying satellites, with new capabilities to find IED factories and communicate anywhere.
- Telecom companies will see a large percentage of cell phone service move from ground based towers to aerial vehicles above the jet stream, especially in huge emerging markets like China, India and Africa.
- Internet professionals will deliver wide-band service from the air. Internet Protocol Television, already the fastest growing entertainment medium, will explode when persistent platforms free customers from all geographic restrictions.
Defense and Homeland Security industry professionals concerned with law enforcement, border surveillance, disaster recovery and maritime surveillance might also be interested in another new report of HSRC “Global Homeland Security, Homeland Defense & Intelligence Markets Outlook 2009-2018“, covering Biometrics, Aviation security, Maritime security, Information. Technology and Cyber terror security, CBRN security, Infrastructure security, Counter terror intelligence, the private sector HLS, RFID based systems, Border security, Perimeter security, First responders, HLS-HLD C3I systems, Nuclear-Radiological screening systems, and more in over 375 pages, 70 tables and 150 figures.
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November 19th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The Wiki reference is OK but probably not helpful. Only the top 10,000 feet of that definition is relevant and pointing out that the US Federal Aviation Administration is a serious problem may stop our customers.