by Chip Yorkgitis
> ... The Commission is particularly interested whether
> stratospheric-based platforms, such as High Altitude Platform
> Stations ("HAPS"), which operate above twenty kilometers
> (approximately 65,000 feet), could be deployed for this purpose in
> the 70/80/90 GHz Bands.
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I am not an expert on this subject, but ISTM that any platform supporting multiple users, at that height, would require a fairly large solar array for power, I want to know if the platform is supported in the air by electric fans, a balloon, or by other means.
If the support mechanism fails, how would commercial aircraft flying below it avoid what might be a fatal debris field?
Bill