{"id":10517,"date":"2014-04-01T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:56:50","slug":"dirigible-drones-will-watch-the-world-from-13-miles-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/dirigible-drones-will-watch-the-world-from-13-miles-up","title":{"rendered":"Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/amcduffee\/\" rel=\"author\">Allen McDuffee<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1sGqQek3pqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> With UAVs <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/techinnovations\/2006-07-06-uavs-iraq_x.htm?csp=34\">crowding navigable airspace<\/a> and plans underway to put giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/12\/giant-folding-satellite\/\">mega-satellites<\/a> into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a football field and 25 yards in diameter, the blimp-shaped vehicle\u2019s shell will be made of carbon fiber.<\/p>\n<p>Without a launcher, StratoBus floats to the lower stratosphere at an altitude of about 13 miles where developers say it will be in a perfect position to carry out a range of functions, including surveillance, border security monitoring, communications reinforcement and facilitating navigation \u2014 all from a stationary position with the help of two self-adjusting electric motors. The StratoBus will be able to endure missions of up to a year with a total lifetime of five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/03\/dirgibles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen McDuffee \u2014 Wired With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,38,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-engineering","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}