Source: Innovation News Daily
Jeremy Hsu, Senior Writer, Innovation News Daily
Every U.S. good sold overseas or iPad shipped from China makes one of 500 million journeys aboard ship containers crossing the world’s oceans each year — a journey that ends at deep-water ports capable of docking and offloading the world’s biggest cargo ships. Now a U.S. entrepreneur wants to give every city or town an instant seaport with his vision for robot cranes floating in the sky beneath giant balloons.
Source: Nogales International
By Manuel C. Coppola – Nogales International
That Beluga whale you may have seen in the western Nogales sky on Monday is actually a tethered blimp being tested by the Border Patrol. Continue reading
Source: Wired.com
By Noah Shachtman
After spending more than $140 million, the Air Force is poised to pull the plug on its ambitious project to send a king-sized, all-seeing spy blimp to Afghanistan. Continue reading
Source: Aero News Network
Four Months On-station Persistence PredictedGlobal Near Space Services (GNSS) of Colorado Springs, CO, and Bye Aerospace of Denver, CO, jointly announced continued progress in the development of a unique solar-electric-powered airship named StarLight. Continue reading
Sourced: Wired.com
By Ben Paynter – Wired
This spring NASA plans to test its first starshade—a disk-shaped screen that blocks light from the atmosphere to give astronomers a better view of distant planets. Continue reading