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Published in Stocks and Investing on Friday, March 13th 2009 at 7:53 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-03-13 07:54:21 by Market Wire
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwire - March 13, 2009) - Sanswire-TAO, [ www.sanswiretao.com ], the airship development and manufacturing joint venture equally owned by Sanswire Corp. (
The spiral development schedule kicks off with the production of the STS-111, a 34-meter long, autonomously controlled, rapidly deployed, non-rigid, mid-altitude, medium endurance multi-segmented airship leading into the development and production of the STS-230, a 70-meter long, autonomously controlled, rapidly deployed, non-rigid, medium to high altitude multi-segmented airship that is designed to operate for extended durations at higher altitudes through the utilization of a proprietary propulsion system. The concepts leading to the spiral development program are a result of over 15 years of research and development in Lighter Than Air (LTA) technologies and renewable energy and fuel powered prototypes of various sizes, shapes and design criteria.
"The spiral development cycle offers us cost efficiency, flexibility and speed to market," stated Jonathan Leinwand, Sanswire CEO. "The main advantages of this schedule are the ability to maintain our ultimate goal of stratospheric flight through the staged development of new designs for medium altitude platforms, and address the immediate opportunities in the marketplace. This process makes the most sense because it provides an orderly method for us to educate the client about the uniqueness of our patented segmented airships, and incrementally demonstrate the robust performance of the design to satisfy various mission requirements ranging from mid to higher altitude applications."
The viability of the Sanswire-TAO process model was validated in the September 2008 Army Science Board report "Platforms for Persistent Communications, Surveillance and Reconnaissance." The report stated:
"Medium and High Altitude LTA airships (untethered) total scores were about equal to or better than UAVs at comparable altitudes for Persistent CSR (Communications, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) because of reconfigurability, time on station, payload size and flying hour costs for medium altitude and time on station, support infrastructure and flying hour costs for high altitude. Medium altitude LTA airships offer promising capabilities for CSR in the near term due to rapidly maturing capabilities based on a number of factors including time on station, all weather capability, flying hour cost and vulnerability. As a result, High altitude LTA and UAV platforms permit offload of communication traffic from high cost commercial satellites and future military satellites (e.g. TSAT). The maturation and potential payoff of LTA technology warrants further investment in experimentation and potential acquisition because of persistence on station."
Sanswire-TAO's approach and the defined 2009 spiral development program provides a systematic approach to address both the technological challenges of increasing altitudes, payload weights and enhancing durations while advancing the systems and technologies utilized for the specific commercial and government needs for persistent, medium duration, mid-altitude airships to support homeland and border security or other operational applications.
For additional updates and advancements to the development program please visit [ www.Sanswire.com ]
About Sanswire-TAO Corp.
Sanswire-TAO exclusively owns and markets all the technology and intellectual property associated with TAO's lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), including the Stratellite(tm) high-altitude airships, the SAS-51 low-altitude airships, the mid-altitude SkySat airship category, and the PADDS Precision Air Drop Delivery System in the US, Canada and Mexico. Sanswire-TAO Corp. is jointly owned by TAO Technologies GmbH and Sanswire Corp. For more information, visit [ http://www.sanswire-tao.com ].
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