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Sergey Brin-Funded Lighter Than Air Pathfinder 1 Mega Hybrid Airship Begins Outdoor Testing

Sergey Brin-Funded Lighter Than Air Pathfinder 1 Mega Hybrid Airship Begins Outdoor Testing

Sergey Brin LTA Pathfinder 1 Mega Hybrid Airship Testing
Photo credit: LTA Research
Luxury balloon rides to the edge of space will become common in just a few years, but the Sergey Brin-funded Lighter Than Air (LTA) Pathfinder 1 mega hybrid airship will be airborne long before that time. It measures 124.5 meters (408 feet) long and is powered by twelve Pipistrel electric motors, connected to two 150-kilowatt diesel generators as well as 24 battery packs.



Nylon-based helium bags line its inner walls to provide lift and buoyancy, while four fin rudders offer precise directional control. Protecting those helium bags are 13 circular mainframes, each consisting of 3,000 welded titanium hubs and 10,000 polymer tubes reinforced with carbon fiber. It is currently undergoing outdoor testing at in Mountain View, California.

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Sergey Brin LTA Pathfinder 1 Mega Hybrid Airship Testing

The big old airships had cow intestines pasted on linen sheets to create the gas bags Today no one is going to fly in an airship that hasn’t flown in a computer first. The tools have gotten a lot better and so have the materials—you’re not going to use cow intestines anymore,” said Barry Prentice, director of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba to Popular Mechanics.

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Scientists Drop Mesobot, a Hybrid Remotely-Operated Vehicle (HROV), in the Ocean Twilight Zone

Scientists Drop Mesobot, a Hybrid Remotely-Operated Vehicle (HROV), in the Ocean Twilight Zone

Mesobot Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV) Ocean Twilight Zone
There may be permanent human habitats under the ocean in just a few years, but for now, scientists have to rely on Mesobot, a hybrid remotely-operated vehicle (HROV), to monitor the real-life twilight zone. The footage you’re about to see was captured during an October 2023 Nautilus Live expedition to the Geologist Seamounts, located around 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Hawaii’s Big Island.



Since these deep sea animals migrate between surface waters at night and deeper regions during the day, the team was able to observe them from a relatively shallow depth of 328 feet (100 meters). In addition to capturing high-resolution images, various auxiliary devices can also be connected to Mesobot like a sampler that pumps seawater through filters to collect environmental DNA left behind by animals recently in the area.

It’s all part of a co-robotics experiment aboard the Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus, funded by NOAA Ocean Exploration via the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) to advance the pace of ocean exploration through innovation with teams from OET, WHOI, University of New Hampshire, and the University of Rhode Island,” said the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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