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A Helium-Filled Cell Tower in the Sky
We visited Sceye’s hangar in Roswell, New Mexico to learn about the company’s High Altitude Platform System (HAPS), which is designed to provide internet services to underserved communities and conduct Earth observation with partners including NASA and USGS. Read more on CNET.com: Launching Balloon-Like Infrastructure for the Stratosphere 0:00 Intro to Sceye’s HAPS 0:39 What…
@D0Mlas360
November 3, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Didn’t Hindenburg do this already?
@AD-xk7pk
November 3, 2024 at 1:44 pm
If this succeeds the already depleted helium would suffer.
Realeasing helium to descend into the atmosphere sounds like a bad idea, alot of wasted helium in the process and not to mention any possible environmental impact.
@kashyapchonekar5437
November 3, 2024 at 1:59 pm
It’s unmaned so why not use hydrogen helium is way too limited and important
@tekmepikcha6830
November 3, 2024 at 2:08 pm
The refinement of this concept was overdue. Glad to see the actual tech up and running!!
@ToGoMania19
November 3, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Looks like Sky-Fi to me!!
@JasonB808
November 3, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Real reason they are there is to provide entertainment to the “UFO” tourism in Roswell. 😅
@zaffora
November 3, 2024 at 2:24 pm
I know Hydrogen is flammable, but with no living passengers, it should be safe and with a Helium shortage, a much more affordable and plentiful gas to use. So why aren’t they using Hydrogen?
@8k60
November 3, 2024 at 2:41 pm
AST SpaceMobile is doing to do this a lot more efficiently. Side note Starlink can’t because of interference issues.
@trkoo
November 3, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Isnt this similar to google loom project?
@timothyshiu2263
November 3, 2024 at 3:39 pm
Why weather balloon keep floating up and burst later and this one stay floated and not brust?
helium is expensive to made, isn’t it? Is there a way to keep/recycle helium?
@rowshambow
November 3, 2024 at 5:25 pm
Because weather balloons go WAAAAT higher
@Kx0195
November 3, 2024 at 5:04 pm
I see a dystopian future where the sky is filled with these with high res cameras and electronic communication gathering equipment to keep us under control 😂
@rowshambow
November 3, 2024 at 5:26 pm
Why would they use blimps? Microdrones that look like house flies will do a better job
@emptymannull
November 3, 2024 at 5:08 pm
I thought there was some kind of dire worldwide shortage of helium and we are running out. How were they able to get permits to waste so much of it? Was this a government research contract? When we all can’t get MRI scans or conduct certain research, looks like we know who to blame!
@mgratk
November 3, 2024 at 5:15 pm
That’s a blimp or an airship.
@TheTanman412
November 3, 2024 at 5:19 pm
How to hide a leaf: grow a forest👽🛸
@TheTanman412
November 3, 2024 at 5:21 pm
I love how helium or hydrogen powered/assisted vehicles only become more and more solar and battery integrated with time. Soon the cost of solar battery, energy density, and weight will be improved so much there will be no reason to include hybrid systems or other forms of propulsion.
@xpeterson
November 3, 2024 at 5:29 pm
Don’t call our blimp a blimp!
@Darkk6969
November 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm
So flippin cool to see that thing launch like a rocket! So cool to see it as retro looking.
@DemPilafian
November 3, 2024 at 5:44 pm
Every American who watches videos like this is familiar with metric. Information about satellites, the stratosphere, radio waves, etc. should be in metric not imperial. Think metric. Commercial passenger planes fly at 10,000 m and space begins 10x higher at 100 km. Starlink satellites orbit at an altitude of about 550 km.
@DemocracyDecoded
November 3, 2024 at 6:05 pm
What do you think about the increasing space flights? It’ll fill out skies with garbage, we need to make some restrictions or we will have a disaster, we can lose all our satellites and go back to the stone age.
@gavila222
November 3, 2024 at 6:15 pm
WHAT ABOUT LIGHTING
@NextNate03
November 4, 2024 at 4:13 am
Airplanes get hit by lightning all the time with no issues.
@markplain2555
November 3, 2024 at 6:24 pm
How do they get around helium leakage through the material?
@djksfhakhaks
November 3, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Yes. Lets take a finite resource used for life saving medical scans to instead make cell towers cheaper.
@AbiNubli
November 3, 2024 at 7:02 pm
We can blame them if the world’s helium has ran out
@ShannonJosephGlomb
November 3, 2024 at 7:44 pm
this is brilliant 🙂 its like a whole new use of different older technology making it modern and building a future tech system awesome guys i hope you are getting all the funding you need and a bit more as bonus right lol
@TheJttv
November 3, 2024 at 8:13 pm
A tethered, ground powered drone can do most of what this thing aims to do without wasting helium.
@rosariodagosto6484
November 3, 2024 at 9:06 pm
starlink much clearer 😊
@chikanojuarez816
November 3, 2024 at 9:09 pm
👏👏👏👏
@peterd.7069
November 3, 2024 at 9:44 pm
looks like a flying whale
@gerryroberts2897
November 3, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Is it just me I don’t think I’m the only one that’s saying this but they continue to blur out the propulsion system in the back of the airship I don’t see why? Did you find it to be very strange that such a company that is not doing anything top secret is hiding the propulsion system because it looks like a typical two-blade rotor🤔
@nordstrom7770
November 3, 2024 at 11:26 pm
Competition to starlink is good for consumers
@elitecol69
November 4, 2024 at 3:49 am
Ah so Helium, which we are almost out of and desperately need for medial equipment cooling?
Ha yeh Einstein idea
@mikafiltenborg7572
November 4, 2024 at 5:22 am
No hydrogen /
🔥Hindenburg 🔥? 😅
@urbanstrencan
November 4, 2024 at 5:55 am
Awesome tech we need to serve communities that don’t have proper access
@E4S65
November 4, 2024 at 1:28 pm
“Satellite companies generally require a dish to access their services where as Sky says it will be capable of beaming Internet directly to users devices no additional hardwire required”
Should we tell them about Starlink direct to cell?😅
@thewatersavior
November 4, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Umm.. isn’t helium expensive.. and limited.. and non-renewable? What deh doing about that? I guess never coming down is one solution..
@CampbellTatham
November 4, 2024 at 2:25 pm
He sounds JUST like Elon….