Lockheed Martin just posted this video of the launch the first-of-its kind High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator on July 27, 2011, from the historic Goodyear Akron Airdock*. The U.S. Army launched its new $150 million airship on Wednesday only to watch it come down in some Pennsylvania woods just hours later.
Category Archives: Lighter Than Air
Raytheon’s JLENS Aerostat Successfully Completes Endurance Test
Raytheon Company‘s aerostat system – Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) – recently completed a successful endurance test.
Lockheed Martin Unmanned Airship Down on Test Flight
An unmanned, remote controlled airship, launched from Akron, Ohio, crash landed Wednesday morning, just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
World Surveillance Group Continues Argus One Tests
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that it has completed additional testing of its Argus One UAV in Easton, Maryland in preparation for the airship’s flight testing and demonstration at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona.
Aerostat and Shadow Test Joint Tactical Radio Systems
Persistent Surveillance System at Camp Julien, Afghanistan
Aerostat blimps and Shadow Unmanned Aircraft Systems configured with Joint Tactical Radio Systems, or JTRS, have been flying above the desert terrain at White Sands Missile Range, N.M, during the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation. Continue reading
World Surveillance Group Inc. (ex Sanswire) Gets Funding from Space Florida
World Surveillance Group Inc. (formerly Sanswire) has announced that it was awarded a $200,000 contract from Space Florida to create a Performance Data Package in connection with the flight testing of the Argus One at the U.S. Army’s proving ground facility in Yuma, Arizona in May/June 2011.
New Unmanned Airship from Sanswire
Sanswire Corp., based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, announced that it has unveiled a new lighter-than-air UAS, the “Argus One” following the Company’s recent filing of a provisional patent application. The airship is designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications for the US military and other governmental agencies. It is apparently “Newly Designed and Constructed and Ready to Fly” …