This is a report on HALROP (High Altitude Long Range Observational Platform), a solar powered airship entitled 'Long Endurance Stratospheric Solar Powered Airship,' and was published by the New Airship System Study Group of the Japan Industrial Technology Promotion Association. The report covers history of previous research on stratospheric platform; the concept and design specifications of HALROP (a proposed model for 20 km altitude airship); relationship between the altitude and meteorological data; liftoff, descent, and recovery operations; design of high efficiency solar power system; structure and weight balance problems, a feasibility study of antarctic exploration by HALROP; the conceptual design of solar powered transport airship called JS-RESAT which makes use of the jet stream; and the feasibility study of stratospheric power generation.


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    Title :

    Report of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, No. 166, March 1994. Long Endurance Stratospheric Solar Powered Airship


    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    74 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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