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	Tethered Aerostat Radar System - United States Nuclear Forces
		GE built the aerostats which are the ones most often cited as having a large amount of downtime.
		The aerostat consists of four major parts or assemblies: the hull, the windscreen and radar platform, the airborne power generator, and the rigging and tether assembly.
		The aerostat at Deming is also out of service due to a dust devil passing over the site which caused the aerostat to open and deflate.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/usa/airdef/tars.htm (0 words)

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		An aerostat is an aerodynamically shaped body that is tethered to the ground.
		Aerostats are filled with a ‘lighter than air’ gas which is helium in most cases and thus generates lift due to buoyancy.
		Hence, in order to increase the payload of the aerostat, the size of the fins should be made as small as possible through proper selection of fin geometry and location.
	www.aero.iitb.ac.in /~airships/aerostat01.html (405 words)

	Domestic and Foreign Studies on Aerostat (Balloon) Logging
		The aerostat was held on the altitude of 50 m by a cable of 12.7 mm diameter which opposite end was connected with a carriage.
		Aerostat (balloon) wood logging definitely minimize expenditures for road construction while harvesting in forests difficult of access as well as on mountain ridges.
		Aerostat logging is able to log on convex and concave profile terrain, to log wood straight upward, to secure safe harvesting.
	www.kht.ru /homepage/aeros/En/Hist.htm (1665 words)

	Factsheets : Tethered Aerostat Radar System : Tethered Aerostat Radar System (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The current aerostat network consists of two sizes of aerostats (275,000 cubic feet and 420,000 cubic feet) and two varieties of radars.
		The aerostat consists of four major parts or assemblies: the hull and fin, windscreen and radar platform, airborne power generator, and rigging and tether.
		The first aerostats were assigned to the Air Force in December 1980 at Cudjoe Key, Fla., with the original 250,000-cubic foot aerostat.
	www.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3507 (1037 words)

	What is an Aerostat System?
		Basically tethered blimps, TCOM aerostats are non-rigid aerodynamic structures manufactured of composite laminates and high-tech materials in combinations that have been refined over years of testing.
		The aerostat and its ground support equipment have evolved into the present state-of-the-art system over three decades of on-station operations.
		Aerostats have demonstrated an overall availability unmatched by any other aircraft in the history of aviation.
	www.tcomlp.com /aerostats_what_is.html (85 words)

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		The Aerostat radars, which basically include sensors mounted on blimp-like large balloons tethered to the ground with long cables, are a long-standing requirement of the IAF.
		AWACS and Aerostat radars can act as major force-multipliers by detecting and tracking cruise missiles and low-flying aircraft much earlier than ground-based radars, which can then be targeted by air defence systems.
		AWACS, Aerostat radars and UAVs all act as ‘‘eyes in the sky’’ to increase the ‘‘situational awareness’’ of the theatre commander.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/72-12484.aspx (420 words)

	Aerostat Based COMINT Systems
		Aerostat platforms have outstanding detection ranges and airspace coverage as well as long mission duration capability, and offer low acquisition and operating costs.
		Aerostat; comprise several unique elements and technologies, including most notably the envelope, the tethering cable, and the mooring system.
		The size of an aerostat, thus the volume of helium its envelope contains, determines its total lifting capacity (this is also dependent on the floating altitude and temperature).
	www.shoghi.co.in /aerostat_based.html (464 words)

	Aerostat Consortium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aerostats will be paired with advanced radar to strengthen the military's early-detection, tracking and engagement capability.
		Smaller aerostats are already in use, both commercially and by the government.
		A "picket fence" of aerostats is already stationed off the southern border of the United States where authorities successfully use these radar systems to track and interdict illegal drug shipments.
	clemsonews.clemson.edu /WWW_releases/2001/October2001/Aerostat_Consortium.html (592 words)

	Aerostat deployment apparatus page
		An apparatus for inflating and deploying an aerostat having a nose section and a tail section includes a cylindrical container for housing the deflated portion of the aerostat.
		The deflated aerostat is initially folded to juxtapose the nose and tail of the aerostat.
		Next, the nose of the aerostat is attached to the feed hose end and the remaining portion of the aerostat is folded and inserted into the container.
	www.patentalert.com /docs/001/z00107447.shtml (334 words)

	Aerostat Surveillance Systems
		The aerostats will be deployed around Baghdad, assisting in the defence of ground forces and high value assets in that area.
		Although these aerostats are quite large, they are dwarfed by the aerostats Lockheed Martin has in place along the border between the US and Mexico.
		The Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) is operated by the US Air Force and uses a series of 420,000 cubic foot balloons equipped with the Lockheed Martin L-88 radar in support of air sovereignty and counter-drug operations.
	www.spyflight.co.uk /Aerostat.HTM (516 words)

	BOSCH Aerospace Rapid Deploy Aerostat
		The size of an aerostat is dependent upon the weight of the payload to be lifted.
		The start sequence is initiated, and the aerostat breaks the all-weather seal on the main container lid and self inflates to a preset pressure.
		, a two-minute inflation has been accomplished on a small aerostat with a length of 25 feet and a volume of 1500 cubic feet, and a four-minute inflation was accomplished on an aerostat with a length of 60' and a volume 9000 cubic feet).
	www.boschaero.com /aerostat.htm (715 words)

	BBAC: Aerostat Magazine
		Aerostat is the official journal of the BBAC; the only magazine of its type to cover UK, Europe and beyond.
		It is bi-monthly and has 52 glossy full colour pages packed full of news, equipment reviews, adventures, competitions, stunning photographs, items for sale and listings that tell you where to see balloon meets and festivals in the UK and abroad.
		If you are a member and have not received your last Aerostat magazine please contact membership@bbac.org.
	www.bbac.org /aerostat1.php (0 words)

	Lighter-than-air-Force
		Aerostats perform very unusual and highly sensitive communications duties for elite government law enforcement and broadcasting organizations in situations where no other practical way to do a job exists.
		Like a flying intrusion detector, 11 aerostats with inboard radars troll for drug-hauling aircraft, along an arc that stretches from Puerto Rico to Yuma, Ariz. In the early 1990s, one aerostat started flying the powerful antenna for a Voice of America-like TV station, TV Marti.
		Aerostats are packed to their fins with special radar payloads that would have mere hot air balloons, airships or blimps hissing with envy.
	www.af.mil /news/airman/0301/baloon.html (1268 words)

	About Aerostats
		The Easter aerostat of Leonidion is a paper flying device that is brought out once the priest of the parish says "Christ has risen".
		For these people, if there was no aerostat Easter would not be the same for them, some part of Easter would be missing if there was no aerostat.
		The Easter aerostats fly very high, more than 1000 metres and if the aerostat is taken by the wind, it can reach near the island of Spetses (over 50 km).
	users.otenet.gr /~apelon/leonidion/aerostat1.html (402 words)

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		The aerostat is a tethered balloon radar that flies above lajas puerto and is used for drug interdiction (more info).
		The periodicity's in the aerostat model data was compared with the periodicity's found in the total power time series of p2030 pulsar data (100 Mhz bw centered at 1420 Mhz with 64 usecond sampling).
		The aerostat radar was outside the rf band of p2030, but the data was taken when the 10db amplifier for the filter bank was installed (08apr05 thru 12apr05).
	www.naic.edu /~phil/rfi/rdr/aerostat/modelAeroPeriods.html (560 words)

	Aerostats
		Helium filled aerostats are typically utilized as a platform to carry surveillance radars to altitudes reaching 15,000 feet while tethered to the ground by a single tether.
		The 420,000 cubic foot aerostat utilizes a Tedlar/Mylar/Polyester fabric envelope material developed and qualified by ILC Dover.
		The Class IV aerostat design has survived hurricane force winds in excess of 90 mph and has operated in winds in exceeding 65 mph.
	www.ilcdover.com /products/aerospace_defense/aerostats.htm (236 words)

	Aerostats on battlefield
		For example, on a cool day stationed at sea level, the aerostat will fly higher than on a warm day stationed at 4,000 mean sea level.
		As MG Pat Cavanaugh stated in his Chief of Signal Comments in the Spring 2001 Army Communicator, "Objective-force commanders must be free to lead without being tied to a geographically static command post." Aerostats are a key platform that commanders must use to execute this requirement.
		JLENS has successfully participated in many exercises and demonstrations with the small aerostat system to illustrate the aerostat’s contribution to the warfighter.
	www.gordon.army.mil /AC/fall01/jlens.htm (861 words)

	Welcome to Worldwide Aeros Corporation!
		Aeros aerostats are custom designed and manufactured based on the parameters for accomplishing your mission, to include your requirements of payload, altitude, wind speed, operating temperature, and tether, without compromise.
		The Aeros 1170 aerostat is capable of carrying optical video and infrared thermal sensor cameras.
		The Aeros 21M is designed as a portable, fast deployable aerostat capable of carrying out a wide range of surveillance and advertising functions.
	www.aerosml.com /aerostats.asp (132 words)

	Aerostat Gets On for a Contact - Kommersant Moscow
		Should the trial be successful, the first network of aerostats would be arranged in Ekaterinburg.
		An aerostat with equipment is connected with a diesel generating set by a cable.
		Delivering and arranging an aerostat unit of communication costs from 30 million rubles to 50 million rubles on average, said LocomoSky General Director Viktor Prokhorov.
	www.kommersant.com /p727064 (327 words)

	U.S. ARMY TO DEPLOY LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSTAT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS IN IRAQ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The aerostats, equipped with various sensors, will provide a persistent surveillance capability in the defense of ground forces and high-value assets in Baghdad.
		Aerostats and other lighter-than-air systems provide low-cost, long-endurance surveillance capabilities not possible with other types of aircraft.
		Attached by a high-strength cable to a mooring system, aerostats may carry different types of surveillance equipment to conduct multiple missions.
	www.lmco.com /wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=14433&rsbci=0&fti=111&ti=0&sc=400&jsi=false (399 words)

	RosAeroSystems \| Our products \| aerostat
		The cable-tether is intended to hold the aerostat during its ascend, descend and flight at a working altitude, supplying the aerostat onboard systems and the payload with electric power, and, in case of PUMA, provide diversion of lightning and static electricity.
		The ground complex for the tethered aerostat maintenance is designed to provide normal operation of the aerostat at a working altitude, ascend and descend its maintenance on the ground and at all stages of work as well as the payload maintenance.
		The empennage of the aerostat consists of three similar fins: the upper vertical fin and two lower fins, each at an angle of 56° with a vertical axis of the aerostat.
	rosaerosystems.pbo.ru /english/products/puma.html (536 words)

	The Large Adaptive Reflector
		This flight did not use the instrument platform which is normally at the confluence point where the three tethers from the ground come together.
		The height of the aerostat is about 300 m and the instrument platform is typically 150 m high.
		This is part of a one-third-scale multi-tethered aerostat system that will be used to prove the airborne platform concept.
	www.drao-ofr.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca /science/ska (415 words)

	Lockheed Martin Delivers Aerostat Surveillance System to U.S. Army for Deployment in Iraq
		The aerostat, equipped with various sensors, will provide a persistent surveillance capability in the defense of ground forces and high-value assets in Baghdad.
		Aerostats and other lighter-than-air systems provide low-cost, long- endurance surveillance capabilities not possible with other types of aircraft.
		Attached by a high-strength cable to a mooring system, aerostats may carry different types of surveillance sensors to conduct multiple missions.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-08-2004/0002189231&EDATE= (419 words)

	Buy a Steinhausen Aerostat Automatic Pilot Watch for $199.95
		The Steinhausen Aerostat was recreated from nearly century old sketches.
		It was also a way of honoring the pilots of the "rigid hydrogen airships." He felt that the pilots of the "Floating Palaces" or "Grand Luxury Airships" of the era deserved a watch befitting their status.
		A watch that truly belonged in the sky with the pilots of "Airships that are lighter than air" Unfortunately Steinhausen’s genius was light years ahead of the technology of the time.
	www.brandsonsale.com /steinhausen-watch-tw481s.html (372 words)

	Tethered Aerostats
		In all tethered aerostat systems, the main tether not only holds the blimp in position, but also provides electrical power to the vehicle's systems as well as a data link (via fiber optics in all modern systems) to communicate with the on-board sensors.
		The main envelope of an aerostat is filled with helium, while the stablizing tail fins are normally filled with air.
		When moored to the ground, large aerostats are anchored to a rotating mast so that they can freely weathervane in the wind.
	www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/app4/aerostats.html (1139 words)

	Lockheed Martin Announces COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) Aerostat Surveillance System
		One trailer contains the deflated 8K (8,000 cubic feet) aerostat surveillance system and all of its equipment, serves as the deployment and operations vehicle and is the communications headquarters.
		If there is a need 100 miles down the road, the crew inhauls the aerostat, packs all the equipment into the trailer within two hours, and moves on down the road.
		"These aerostats, equipped with Lockheed Martin L-88 radars, have been on duty for a number of years." Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems in Akron, Ohio, with about 1,100 employees in the U.S., is the Lockheed Martin center of excellence for lighter-than-air technology and a part of Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-10-1999/0000867913&EDATE= (716 words)

	Tethered Aerostat RADAR System (TARS) Developed by NOAA/ETL
		The primary aerostat mission is to provide radar data in support of federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program.
		These aerostats "fly" while being tethered to the ground, and continually scan the horizon tracking airplanes.
		Operational concerns for these aerostats include severe weather (affecting its ability to stay aloft) and safety (both in the air and when retrieving the aerostat).
	www.etl.noaa.gov /technology/tars (427 words)

	Tethered Aerostat - Digital Edge
		But an Alabama company has developed a special aerostat for the military and others that is mobile, sturdy and doesn't require a lot of work to launch.
		Bosch Aerospace has patents for this device, and says its aerostat us "instant high ground" for communications or surveillance.
		He suggests the aerostat could be a valuable supplement to permanent towers now being erected.
	www.nbc4.com /technology/1576797/detail.html (402 words)

	Skyhawke 2001™
		The system consists of a tethered aerostat mounted stabilised camera platform, (available on tethered blimp, and on other platforms), an electric aerostat winch and handler with a camera control basestation.
		The unique aerostat design supports the camera platform which is a 180 mm diameter sphere housing the camera and all video processing, interface and control electronics.
		Aerostat batteries and radio transceivers are thus not required giving secure data comms and images between camera and ground station, allowing long periods of deployed operation.
	www.floatograph.com /skyhawk2001 (730 words)

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