フランス：Stratobus型飛行船を研究：the defense procurement agency（DGA）（動画）：
French military､interest in Stratobus：Emergency satcom gear deployed in Australia：
法国军方对Stratobus表现出兴趣•在澳大利亚部署了应急卫星通信设备
Thales Alenia Space：
Thales Alenia Spaceが、仏防衛調達機関DGAとの研究契約に署名しました。
情報収集、監視、偵察目的で、ストラトバス型飛行船の調査研究を開始します。
研究契約では、成層圏を飛行して、観測結果を収集できる実物大のデモンストレーターを検討の予定。
Jean-Philippe Chessel：Stratobus製品のディレクター、
2023年末までに､Stratobus製品の飛行実証を行う予定と語っています。
The companies
say Stratobus airships can conduct a variety of satellite- and drone-like missions, including remote sensing, environmental monitoring and communications. [Thales]
SmartSky, a company preparing a network of towers across the United States for in-flight Wi-Fi, obtained the rights to borrow another $25 million from lenders.
The Global Credit Opportunities team at BlackRock, which agreed last year to loan SmartSky $75 million, said that the full amount is now available after SmartSky passed a network deployment milestone.
SmartSky, which once expected to have its air-to-ground network operational in 2017, now anticipates starting commercial operations in the second quarter of 2020.
[SmartSky]SpaceNews.com