Even though satellite, balloons and aircraft have served admirably as aerospace platforms for remote sensing and telecommunication, requirements for a new kind of platforms — an easily modifiable, sub‐orbital platform — have been widely identified. The High‐Altitude Long‐Range Observational Platform(HALROP) was at first conceptualized as a solar power driven unmanned LTA (Lighter‐Than‐Air) vehicle or an airship to maintain a station‐keeping position in the lower stratosphere for long‐durations and to carry out missions such as high‐resolution monitoring and high‐speed informational relays. Nevertheless solar power is not available in winter seasons in the high‐latitudinal regions. Therefore, alternative power sources are necessary and the candidates are surface‐to‐air transmission of microwave energy and high‐power laser beams. The author introduces a wireless power transmission test by microwave carried in 1995 in Kobe, Japan, and then, discusses possibilities of using laser beam for powering such LTA platforms.
Beam Driven Stratospheric Airship
BEAMED ENERGY PROPULSION: First International Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion ; 2002 ; Huntsville, Alabama (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 664 , 1 ; 523-534
2003-05-14
12 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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