Importance of blimps and balloons as air space vehicles; reference made to ZPG-2W airship, which is blimp with helium capacity of 1,000, 000 cu ft, proposed by Goodyear; applications include booster transportation, test bed flights of nuclear powerplants, air-snatch recovery and sea recovery of re-entered payloads; value of balloons for space studies, their use as launching platform for high altitude rocket vehicles; balloon design problems.


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    Title :

    New missions foreseen for lighter-than-air craft


    Additional title:

    Space/Aeronautics


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1960


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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