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Swiss engineer proposes a blimp for mobile telephony

Zurich, Switzerland - It should be positioned at 21 kilometers high and replace the antennas for telephony

Kamal Alavi is an ex-space engineer, owner of a company called Stratxx, that intends to revolutionize the world of mobile telephony and digital data transmission, by launching on orbit a blimp, the X-Station. This is what "10 vor 10", a Swiss information broadcast referres. It seems that Alavi has decided not to see again on Swiss territory the thousands of antennas for mobile telephony that are outspread...

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Rome, Italy, 07/07/2006 20:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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