Improving Firefighter Safety with STRATO
Amendment 37: DRAFT F.11 Stand-Alone Landing Site-Agnostic Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon released for community comment.Amendment 37: DRAFT F.11 Stand-Alone Landing Site-Agnostic Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon released for community comment.NASA researchers, the U.S. Forest Service, and Sioux Falls-based high-altitude balloon company, Aerostar, have teamed up to provide cell coverage from the stratosphere.
We’re hoping STRATO will give us another club we’ve been needing — that is, persistent, long-duration communications to connect to a variety of devices where and when we need it.”Challenges with line-of-sight radio communications in rugged terrain and limited cell phone coverage in remote areas hamper the sharing of critical information between wildland firefighters in the field and the incident command post miles away.
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