Wirless floating robots in the space
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Aug. 22, 2006

Communication companies are planning to strategically float robotic airships above the Earth as an alternative to unsightly telecom towers on the ground and expensive satellites in space.

Jones, a former NASA manager, envisions a fleet of unmanned "Stratellites" hovering in the atmosphere and blanketing large swaths of territory with wireless access for high-speed data and voice communications. The idea of using airships as communications platforms isn''t new _ it was widely floated during the dot-com boom. It didn''t really fly then, and Jones is the first to admit the latest venture is a gamble. Tethered flights of a prototype -- which cost about $3 million to build and is about one-fifth scale model of the planned commercial airships -- are scheduled later this month in this Mojave Desert city, about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. Jones says it will be a critical test of the technology. "I don''t want to see it fall on someone's back yard or have it float away to Las Vegas," said Jones, president of Stratellite developer Sanswire Networks LLC.

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