Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magnus LTA 20-1 Magnus Aerospace Corporation's LTA 20-1 had all the hallmarks of 1980s space-age futurism. Its design looked very ...

GAO identified 15 key aerostat and airship efforts that were underway or had been initiated since 2007, and the Department of Defense (DOD) had or has primary responsibility for all of these efforts.

Over the last ten years, there have been several proposals for placing large, lighter-than-air high altitude airships in the stratosphere above the jet-stream and using them to provide a stable ...

A fierce global competition for the stratosphere has ignited following China's recent success in launching an airship into this atmospheric layer. The stratosphere, the space between 12 to 50 km in ...

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. and STUTTGART , Germany , Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanswire Networks LLC, subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp. (Pink Sheets: GTEM), and TAO Technologies, GmbH, today ...

Airship builders say the development of lighter, stronger materials will allow them to deliver on a century-old ambition of making craft capable of winning business from freight operators such as ...