From the article: Unsurprisingly, the best place to watch an earthquake from is up in the air. And a balloon may be the best platform of all. The annual meeting of the Global Disaster Information Network in Italy last week saw the introduction of a new type of balloon-based satellite that could provide communications and remote sensing data for disasters in remote areas of the world with no technological […]
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From the article: ALTADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 3, 2002–At the annual meeting of the Global Disaster Information Network in Rome, Italy, last month, Global Aerospace Corporation introduced a new type of satellite that could provide communications and remote sensing data for disasters in remote areas of the world that have no technological infrastructure. Read the full articles here: MORE […]
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From the article: Imagine unmanned systems — drones, essentially — lying dormant on the ocean floor for years at a time, housing sensors or non-lethal weapons, which rise to the surface when triggered by the Navy. That’s one program underway by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was detailed in a report Thursday. And by underway, it’s in Phase 2 — with […]
From the article: The Pentagon agency that brought you the Internet, GPS and drones is setting its sights on an array of highly complex weapons ranging from satellites to undersea platforms in hopes of overwhelming America’s potential adversaries. After nearly four decades of unchallenged supremacy in offensive military capabilities, the U.S. now faces competitors such as China […]
From the article: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is testing a drone that can hibernate on the ocean floor for years at a time before being launched to the surface and into the air at the push of a button. Dubbed Upward Falling Payloads (UFP) program, the project was detailed in a biennial report released last […]
An article from SIGNAL Magazine about GAC’s contribution to the DARPA Upward Falling Payload (UFP) program. From the article: DARPA advances its remote-triggered deep-sea device that will store payloads and rapidly lift them to the surface. Author: Sandra Jontz. SIGNAL Online MORE ABOUT UFP Read more about UFP here
On 28-29 April 2001, Global Aerospace Corporation conducted a successful scale model test of the StratoSail® BGS. The video below demonstrates this test. More about StratoSail Balloon Guidance System Click here to learn more about the StratoSail Balloon Guidance System.
The Venus Geoscience Aerobot Mission Study (VEGAS) was a four-month analysis of a semiautonomous, altitude-controlled balloon mission to Venus. The study focuses on a Delta launch in the 2007 timeframe, with a nominal 100-day balloon mission and orbiter telecom relay. After the initial balloon and payload deployment in the Venusian atmosphere, the balloon is capable of repeated excursions from altitudes of 60 […]
GAC was featured on the California Institute of Technology in regards to Alexey Pankine and the development of StratoSail. From the article: Global Aerospace figured that if it could tackle the wind problem, it might be able to convince the space industry to give balloons a chance. The company ’s main achievement so far has been to design […]