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Sanswire One begins testing
The prototype was unit floated above at an airport in San Bernardino, California on Monday, May 9th and remained tethered during the test The lighter-than-air platform called Sanswire One was built by the GlobeTel Communications Corp. subsidiary Sanswire Networks. The prototype is 188 feet long and is about a third the size of the operational airships being planned. If proven successful the platforms will serve at sub-orbital repeaters for all sorts of wireless communications services. The company hopes to begin flight testing this summer. GlobeTel
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A
prototype of an unmanned airship that would serve as a communications
relay platform underwent initial testing earlier this month. 