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Unmanned Aerial Telecom Relays

Posted by michael on from the it's-a-bird-it's-a-plane dept.

Brussel writes "SkyTower in collaboration with the Japan Ministry of Telecommunications (CRL/TAO) and NASA has successfully completed a series of commercial telecommunications tests -- the world's first from more than 60,000 feet in the stratosphere. The tests, which began three weeks ago, were conducted from Pathfinder-Plus, an unmanned solar-electric aircraft developed by AeroVironment." There's another press release here.

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  1. the next crash of telecom... by lfourrier · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...will involve planes falling from the sky

  2. Just don't by af_robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    call it Skynet :)
    We know what then may happens...