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	ORBITAL AIRSHIP : Encyclopedia Entry
		The orbital airship, also called the space blimp, is a proposed space transportation system that carries payloads to and from low Earth orbit.
		The third stage is an "orbital airship" (Orbital Ascender), which takes payloads to low earth orbit in three to nine days (i.e., it accelerates itself horizontally to orbital velocity and gains sufficient altitude).
		An orbital airship would need to be built larger to improve the volume/surface area ratio, with thinner walls, and designed to operate at notably lower pressure.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Orbital_airship (1034 words)

	What is an Orbital Airship?
		The orbital airship, or "space blimp" is a proposed means of moving cargo from the ground to low earth orbit without the use of conventional rocketry.
		The design of an orbital airship consists of three stages, designed to move payloads from earth to space in about a week.
		The first stage of ATO is a conventional airship filled with helium.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-an-orbital-airship.htm (547 words)

	orbital airship
		JP Aerospace's "Airship To Orbit" concept has 3 components: 1.
		An atmospheric airship (Ascender), which travels between the ground and the station.
		A 6,000- ft-long orbital airship (Orbital Ascender), which travels between the station and orbit.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/O/orbital_airship.html (129 words)

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	Airship groomed for flight to edge of space - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		Next month, a V-shaped airship bigger than a baseball diamond is due to rise from the West Texas desert to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30.5 kilometers), navigate by remote control, linger above the clouds and drift back to earth.
		But for JP Aerospace, the California-based company that built the airship for the military, the flight would represent just one more small step toward an even bigger conceptual leap: a system of floating platforms that gossamer spaceships could use as high-altitude way stations.
		The objective for next month's Ascender test is merely to demonstrate that the unmanned airship can safely reach the 100,000-foot level, respond to commands beamed up from the ground to navigate between two points, loiter in position for five minutes, then come down safely.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5025388 (1609 words)

	Airship to Orbit - NewMars
		Airship To Orbit (ATO) is a launch scheme proposed by JP Aerospace.
		JP Aerospace's Airship to Orbit architecture for orbital launches consists of three steps, each performed by a different vehicle: an airship, an aerostatic platform, and an airship-derived spacecraft.
		This is a CAD drawing of a sub-orbital prototype of the Orbital Ascender.
	www.newmars.com /wiki/index.php/Airship_to_Orbit (872 words)

	US-LTA Airship Home Page
		An airship's ability to move slowly in an air mass or slowly over an area without disturbing the air is unique to airships and in demand in the research community.
		An airship also has advantages of high stability at low speeds which allow the deployment or installation of equipment in the airstream with little aerodynamic concern, long endurance, high payload, the ability to remain in a given air mass, and the ability to travel at low altitudes.
		The airship's ability to perform high-spatial-resolution profiling both vertically and horizontally makes it the platform of choice to study aerosol, gas-phase chemistry, and dispersion occurring in PBL plumes downwind of ships, power plants, and cities.
	www.us-lta.com /platform.html (2384 words)

	The Space Review: Floating to space
		A single airship would be unable to fly from the surface to orbit: conventional airships are too heavy, while those large and light enough to make the trip would not survive the winds in the lower atmosphere.
		The Transatmospheric Ascender would be a giant airship, nearly two kilometers across, too large and light to survive in the lower atmosphere.
		The airship would use its buoyancy to drift up from the station to about 60 kilometers altitude, at which point it would use an electric propulsion system to gradually reach orbital velocity and altitude over a five-day period.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/151/1 (1139 words)

	HobbySpace - JP Aerospace - Airships to Spaceships
		He revealed that the primary goal is to develop an airship that could leave from a high altitude platform and, with the use of electric propulsion, reach orbit.
		May 28, 2004 - a posting on Slashdot about the orbital airship concept drew several hundred responses.
		May 23, 2004 -.Alan Boyle reports on JP Aerospace and the orbital airship proposal: Airship groomed for flight to edge of space - MSNBC - May.21.04
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/SpecialTopics/orbitalAirship.html (316 words)

	SPACE.com -- Sky Trek To The 'Near Space' Neighborhood
		A Stratellite airship is 100 percent reclaimable, utilizing proprietary lifting gas technology.
		Given the fact that airship work appears to be on the rise--from lower altitudes all the way up to stratospheric heights--what about classes of these sky trekking airships able to transport rubbernecking tourists?
		One of their comments was that high-altitude balloon flights carrying passengers could help generate public interest in suborbital and orbital jaunts.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/051109_airships.html (1333 words)

	Goodyear Corporate \|\| History of the Company by Year
		1929 Construction of world's largest airship dock started in Akron....Spot welding of aluminum alloy developed by Goodyear....Gadsden, Alabama tire plant and two Georgia textile mills began operation....
		1931 Rigid airship Akron launched, construction on sister-ship Macon begun....Rubber-tired tractors demonstrated, based on work in a Florida orange grove on low pressure Airwheel tires....Argentina plant started.
		Goodyear Aircraft closed eight weeks during contract negotiations....N-type airship delivered to Navy, largest ever built....Suburbanite winter tire announced.
	www.goodyear.com /corporate/history/history_byyear.html (2542 words)

	Interviews - Out of the Cradle
		But you’ve found a way that allows you to attain orbital velocity while releasing that energy gradually (and presumably at lower and safer power levels) over several days.
		With advanced balloon, airship and rocket systems, and even his own free flight experiment payload program, John and his team have been quietly and steadily advancing the state of the art in access to near-space.
		Read on to learn about PongSat flight experiments, Airship to Orbit, and just how an aerospace company ended up with a house band.
	www.outofthecradle.net /categories/interviews (1647 words)

	Paragon Space Development Corporation
		Risk assessment and cost analysis for NASA’s Centennial Challenges program, including the Human Orbital Vehicle, and the Lunar Robotic Lander Challenge.
		A project to develop the world's largest airship for cargo transportation: Human interface and human factors design, systems engineering and development of operations, operations department support, cockpit design and simulation development.
		A sealed plant growth chamber designed for deployment on Mars: Designed the plant growth chamber, including the atmospheric control system.
	www.paragonsdc.com /programs.php (831 words)

	JP Aerospace Videos
		A day in the life of an airship factory, or at least two minutes and forty seconds of one.
		This is a 'walk around' of the 175 foot Ascender from January 2004.
		It shows an orbital Ascender approaching the Dark Sky Station.
	www.jpaerospace.com /video.html (680 words)

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